Annual Reports 
REPORT OF THE AUDITING COMMITTEE 
M,essrs. Burton, Sample and J. A. Stev¬ 
ens, having been appointed auditing com¬ 
mittee by the president, submitted the fol¬ 
lowing report: 
To the Florida State Horticultural So- 
. ciety: 
Your Auditing Committee beg leave to 
report that we have examined the ac¬ 
counts of the Secretary and Treasurer 
of the Society, have checked up vouchers 
for expenses and find the accounts to be 
correct as reported. 
Respectfully, 
R. P. Burton, Chairman, 
J. W. Sample, 
J. A. Stevens. 
Moved, seconded and carried that re¬ 
port of Auditing Committee be accepted 
by Secretary. 
REPORT OF SECRETARY 
Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen : 
In returning to Palatka after many 
years, we find the Horticultural Society 
grown from a young and rather weak or¬ 
ganization with only a few members to 
one of the strongest in our fair South¬ 
land. We now have enrolled 106 life 
members and 809 annual members mak¬ 
ing a total of 915. The enrollment at 
the opening of the meeting was 585 
against 427 last year and 224 have joined 
since Tuesday. Last year DeLand gave 
us 47 members. This year Palatka has 
furnished 51. 
Much of this nice increase is due to the 
good work of the Florida Grower, who 
put before the public in every issue of 
its paper the meeting of the Society and 
they have sent us in some 40 members. 
Thanks is also due to Mr. R. A. Conk- 
ling for 24 members, Mr. W. H. Brokaw 
for 10 or 15, H. E. Connell for 10 or 15, 
Air. H. O. Hamm for 19 and Mr. E. M. 
Ernest for 16, also to the nursery and 
fertilizer concerns who have kindly as¬ 
sisted the Secretary in sending out ap¬ 
plication blanks with their correspon¬ 
dence. 
Last year many of our good members 
came to our financial assistance enabling 
us to close this year's books with all bills 
paid and a balance on hand of $392.62. 
With an expense of something over 
$900.00 for printing and mailing the re¬ 
port, it is a cptestion whether it will be 
possible to pull through this coming year 
without again having to ask for help. We 
have on hand quite a few of the reports 
for years past and anyone desiring copies 
for any of the years, with the exception 
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