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FLORIDA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY 
was still more important, Orlando was 
to an unusual degree a neutral point with¬ 
in the state. It belongs neither to the 
Jacksonville territory nor to the Tampa 
district. It favors neither the East Coast 
nor the West Coast. The executive com¬ 
mittee of the league, at a meeting held in 
Jacksonville on January 15, 1914, defin¬ 
itely decided to establish permanent head¬ 
quarters in Orlando. Two well located 
office rooms were therefore rented, on the 
second floor of the building owned by the 
People’s National Bank of Orlando. What 
office furniture the league possessed, to¬ 
gether with all the records belonging to 
the league, was therefore moved to Or¬ 
lando early in February. 
ORGANIZATION. 
Up to the present time the league has 
been an unincorporated body, held to¬ 
gether simply by the mutual consent of 
its members. We have felt from the 
first that this was too loose an organi¬ 
zation, and that we needed an incorpo¬ 
rated body which could act in a business 
capacity, could sue or be sued. A notice 
of intent to incorporate was therefore is¬ 
sued, and has been properly published, 
and presented to the governor of the state, 
and we expect that the Letters Patent has 
been issued today. The Florida Growers’ 
and Shippers’ League, as such, shall con¬ 
sist of one central state organization. 
The machinery of this league should be 
simple. The following plan is suggested 
for your consideration. 
There shall be an Executive Commit¬ 
tee of nine members. This committee 
will be the controlling body of the league, 
subject, of course, to instructions from 
the league itself in annual session. This 
Executive Committee should be elected 
in such a way that the entire state will 
be represented. The committee should be 
elected by the members themselves, and 
should be selected because of the special 
fitness of the individual to serve in such 
a position. This committee should have 
permanency; there should not be periods 
of administration. The work will con¬ 
tinue from one year to another, and many 
problems that are begun one year cannot 
be completed until the following season. 
We would suggest, therefore, that the 
state be divided into three districts as fol¬ 
lows : A northern district which shall 
consist of all the counties north of Citrus, 
Sumpter, Lake, Seminole and Brevard 
counties; a southern district which shall 
include all counties south of Hillsboro, 
Polk, Osceola and Brevard counties; a 
middle district, which shall include all the 
territory lying between the northern and 
southern districts. Each district shall be 
represented upon the Executive Commit¬ 
tee by three members. The term of office 
on the committee, in my opinion, should 
be three years. This will mean that after 
our first election three members of the 
Executive Committee, one from each dis¬ 
trict, shall be elected annually. This plan 
will give us the permanency we so need. 
It will also make it possible to' select with 
care those whom we elect each year. I 
have considered carefully many different 
plans of organizing the league, and I am 
frank to tell you that this plan seems to 
cover the field better, and gives us simple, 
yet effective machinery for carrying on 
our work. The Executive Committee 
will have authority immediately after each 
