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SEVENTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE 
The Secretary —The following has been received. (Reads.) 
Rooms of the Board of Trade, ) 
Jacksonville, Florida, April 11, 1894. i 
Dudley W. Adams, President Florida State Horticultural 
Society . 
Dear Sir: The Jacksonville Board of Trade extends a cor¬ 
dial invitation to your organization to hold its next annual 
meeting in this city, and profers the use of its rooms for its 
sessions. Respectfully, 
Chas. H. Smith, Secretary. 
A member —I move that the invitation be accepted. 
The President —The subject before the society is deter¬ 
mining the location of next meeting. You have heard the in¬ 
vitation from the Jacksonville Board of Trade. It is moved 
that the invitation be accepted. 
A. G. Avery (of Orlando) —I suggest as an amendment 
that we meet in Orlanno next year. 
A member —I think we should accept the invitation of the 
Jacksonville Board of Trade for the reason that there are ho¬ 
tel accommodations in Jacksonville for all who may want to 
come. The hotels of Orlando will uot comfortably accommo¬ 
date this body at this season of the year. 
W. A. Cooper (ot Orlando)—We can accommodate at Or¬ 
lando three times as many as are in attendance here. I think 
that it is due to that portion of the state that the meeting be 
held there. We will take good care of you. I hope the so¬ 
ciety will decide to convene next year at Orlando. 
S. S. Harvey (of Molino, Escambia county,)—I trust this 
motion to amend will not prevail. 1 hope we have about set¬ 
tled down in Jacksonville [applause]. I have this hope because 
I am in the extreme western part ot the state. I am nearly 
400 miles west of this place, yet I can get here in a day. It 
would take me two days to reach Orlando. It will be very 
difficult for the people of West Florida to retain their active 
interest in this society if they must make a two or three day’s 
journey into southeastern Florida to reach its meetings. It 
seems to me it is advisable to stay in the center where all can 
reach the meetings. I have attended meetings of this society 
and like conventions all over the state of Florida, and I never 
had any comfort in attending assemblies of this kind in any 
small town. The large hotels in the small places are closed 
at the season when our meetings are held. Some like to go to 
the large hotels, others do not; in a city of this size all can be 
.accommodated. The city does not feel a crowd. Here in Jack- 
