FLORIDA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
Report From Pinellas Fruit Growers^ Association, 
By Mr. J* G* Julian, President. 
Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen : 
This association started here among the 
pineapple and then the orange growers 
took it up here, forming the Orange 
Growers’ Association some four or five 
years ago. We have the meetings quar¬ 
terly the first Saturday of each month of 
March, June, September and December, 
which have proved very interesting to 
some sixty or eighty. Every now and 
then we say we must take all the orange 
growers in, but all of them can’t get in at 
the same time. I think we are on a per¬ 
manent basis and at least 50 or 75 of the 
orange growers would say positively that 
we are. We find our quarterly meetings- 
very interesting. We generally have two 
sessions on the days we meet; one in the 
forenoon and one in the afternoon. Then, 
if there is any special point that we want 
to know miore about, we call on the Ex¬ 
periment Station for that specific point 
and one of Prof. Rolf’s assistants comes 
down. I believe the Prof, himself was 
djown here once and started to give us a 
30 minute talk, but we were all so inter¬ 
ested that when he finally did look at his 
watch, he found he had barely time to 
catch his train. We meet at different 
points. Largo, O^ona, Clearwater, St. 
Petersburg, so that if it is impossible for 
some of the members to leave their homes, 
the meetings are brought to them, and it 
does not work a hardship on anybody. 
We think it is a good organization for the 
betterment and general diffusion of ideas. 
New members are coming in all the time, 
and I think it is now on a firmer footing 
than it has been for the last four or five 
years. We hope to- make it a great good 
anal benefit. 
Prof. Rolfs—I can assure the meeting 
that this Association is a wide-awake body 
and as intelligent a lot of people as any¬ 
one would want to see. 
Report From Pasadena Farmers^ Club, 
By B. w. McLam* 
Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen: 
In response tO' the courteous notice from 
your president that the Programme Con> 
mittee had reserved a date for a report 
from the Pasadena Farmers' Club, I now 
have the honor to introduce the Pasco 
County Fledgling. 
This 3-year-old Agricultural Society 
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was born. September 24th, 1904, at the 
residence of Mr. C. F. Gardner, on the 
shores of Lake Pasadena. 
Actuated by a common impulse of co¬ 
operation and an earnest desire to master 
the problems involved in agricultural 
pursuits, twelve gentlemen and nine la¬ 
dies organized the Pasadena Farmers’ 
