FLORIDA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
XV 
Prefatory Note. 
In compiling this report, the matter of general interest has 
been gathered under topical heads, preceded by a synopsis 
outlining the transactions of the session in proper sequence. 
The pith and point of lengthy discussions have been given 
with as little tedious detail as possible, and repetitions and 
irrelevant matter has been excluded, so far as this could be 
done without impairing the unity of the whole ; the object 
being, without sacrificing any essenlial feature, to make the 
report more convenient for reference than a simple transcript 
of minutes. 
As noted in the preface to the report for 1893, the last ses¬ 
sion of the legislature failed to make provision for the publi¬ 
cation of the annual reports of the Society. For theis suance 
of this report, as well as the report for last year, the Society 
and the public are indebted to the public spirit of Hon. L. B. 
Womb well, state commissioner of agriculture. Recognizing 
the importance of the work to the state, he has issued the re¬ 
ports for 1893 and 1894 as publications of his office, devolving 
the cost upon the revenues of the department of agriculture. 
This temporary arrangement, by which the state has so 
greatly profited through the breadth of view and insight of 
our present commissioner, cannot, in the nature of things, 
continue. The legislature should make adequate provision 
for the purpose. The Society’s special committee will lay this 
matter before the next session of that body. From this com¬ 
mittee’s forceful statement of the urgency and appropriate¬ 
ness of the legislation asked, we make the following extract : 
The proceedings of the annual meetings of the Florida State 
Horticultural Society should be issued promptly, in a style 
that will not suffer by comparison with the published reports 
of similar societies in other states, and in sufficient numbers 
