FLORIDA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY 
91 
Frances E. Manville, widow of A. H. 
Manville, who was for years an active 
member and officer of this Society, and 
was always foremost in good works for 
the benefit of the horticulturists of Flor¬ 
ida. These books had been carefully 
preserved and labelled by Mr. Manville, 
and consisted of several standard works 
on orange culture, files of Insect Life 
and various horticultural magazines and 
last, but by no means least, an almost 
complete file of the Reports of the De¬ 
partment of Agriculture. 
With the funds donated the Secretary 
purchased a small sectional book case 
and had bound and placed in it a set of 
the bulletins of the Florida Experiment 
Station (presented by himself), two vol¬ 
umes of Semi-Tropical Florida and six 
volumes of Insect Life. 
The outlay was as follows: 
Book case.$12 00 
Binding 10 volumes. 10 00 
Putting lock on book case. 85 
Total.$22 85 
G. L. Taber, 
S. Powers, 
W. S. Hart, 
Committee. 
Grafting and Budding. 
Considered from the Standpoint of an Orange Grower. 
BY W. S. HART, OF HAWKS PARK. 
Having been appointed chairman of 
the Citrus Committee to prepare the first 
report it ever presented to this Society, 
I asked my co-workers to assist in so 
framing that report as to constitute an 
enduring basis on which to build 
through future reports and resulting dis¬ 
cussions, as comprehensive and up-to- 
date a treatise on citrus culture as this 
Society proved itself capable of con¬ 
structing. That the cumulative results 
of all the past work of that standing 
committee and other members, through 
discussing this branch of horticulture, 
have, in a measure, come up to my early 
conception of what they should be, was 
lately impressed on my mind by the sug¬ 
gestion, from a non-resident orange 
grower, that a digest of the back reports 
of this Society would result in a much- 
needed work on citrus culture, and one 
of far more value than could be hoped 
for from the pen of a single writer. A 
desire to assist in filling in the gaps that 
would necessarily occur should such a 
digest be made at this time is one of 
my excuses for presenting this paper. 
In discussing the subjects of grafting 
and budding, I will do so from the stand¬ 
point of an orange grower in the hopes 
