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trunk. One day when I went down, I 
noticed that there were several camps of 
fishermen who had come from the inte¬ 
rior to get fish. They camped along 
there and cut down those cedars for 
camp fires, because they were easier cut 
than oak. I soon put a stop to it, but 
we had lost perhaps twenty or thirty of 
our fine cedars. I go along there occa¬ 
sionally and I find palmettoes with the 
tops cut off, trees six or eight feet high. 
They cut off the cabbage to eat. I value 
the trees along that road very much. If 
we can do something to prevent this van¬ 
dalism it would certainly be a move in 
the right direction. Anything that 
could accomplish it I would give all my 
strength toward putting through. And 
this matter that Mr. Waite speaks of in 
Massachusetts seems to me to be an ex¬ 
cellent way to preserve them. 
Dr. Kerr—A few years ago there were 
resolutions introduced for something of 
that kind by myself, and the Society took 
hold of it. The attention of the Legisla¬ 
ture was called to it, but nothing was 
ever done. Resolutions come up to¬ 
day. What those resolutions I speak of 
amounted to I cannot tell. What they 
may amount to to-day we cannot tell. 
But it is evident to me in mixing with 
the general masses of the people of Flor¬ 
ida, that they are indifferent to the beau¬ 
ties of their State, of their home; and 
this condition of things has become so 
implanted in their minds that it is im¬ 
possible to lift them out of the mire. 
I sometimes go among them and I say, 
“Wihy do you not plant a tree here to 
shade the door?” “We have no care for 
it,” is the reply. 
Now, I am not saying anything 
against the resolution offered previously 
nor the one to-day; they are all right, 
but we stand, probably, a little too high. 
That is, we are in the second story; we 
are above the people, in other words, 
but our duty to the people is this, that 
we should go among them and create a 
sentiment that will go into their hearts 
that will work and work until the State 
is made to feel, until the citizens of the 
State of Florida are made to feel that 
there is a necessity in this direction; and 
I believe that this sentiment being in¬ 
culcated into the minds of the people 
is the only thing to be done, and we have 
not performed our duty when we have 
spoken of it in our Society. 
Fertilizers, Spurious Ashes* 
A DISCUSSION. 
Prof. Stockbridge—I wish to present 
a few results of some trials which I have 
been making of interest to horticultur¬ 
ists, but first I wish to call attention to 
two or three facts which have impressed 
themselves upon me as particularly im¬ 
portant to the fruit growers of Florida 
in as much as I am satisfied that many 
