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FLORIDA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY 
FOR THE FLORIDA STATE FAIR. 
The following resolutions, offered by 
S. H. Gaitskill, were adopted: 
To the respective branches of the 
State Legislature of the State of Flor¬ 
ida : The Florida State Florticultural 
Society, now in session in the city of St. 
Augustine, in token of its high appre¬ 
ciation of the value to all the material 
interests of the entire State of the Flor¬ 
ida State Fair, to be held within the 
State during the present year, and real¬ 
izing that the time has arrived for the 
successful holding of a modern State 
Fair, for the mutual benefit of the agri¬ 
cultural, horticultural and business and 
industrial welfare of all our people, and 
realizing that, in the presence of the ap¬ 
palling calamity that has befallen the 
metropolis of our fair State, the re¬ 
sources of the city of Jacksonville will 
be taxed to their utmost in their own 
recoupment; therefore be if 
Resolved, That the Florida State 
Horticultural Society respectfully and 
earnestly urge upon the State Legisla¬ 
ture the passage of the bill appropriat¬ 
ing the sum of $2,500 for the Florida 
State Fair. 
Resolved, That the Secretary be in¬ 
structed to forward at once to the Pres¬ 
ident of the Senate and the Speaker of 
the House of the Florida State Legisla¬ 
ture copies of these resolutions. 
FOR THE PRESERVATION OF FORESTS. 
Resolved, That the subject of forestry 
merits the attention of the Legislature 
of Florida, and we recommend suitable 
legislation for the preservation of our 
forests from fire and reckless destruc¬ 
tion; and the establishing of a forestry 
commission to suggest the necessary 
legislation to encourage the preservation 
of young trees, and to promote the 
reforestation of districts from which 
the timber has been stripped off, to pro¬ 
mote the propagation of valuable spe¬ 
cies and other matters relating to the 
preservation and care of our forests. 
Resolved, That while we recognize 
the necessity of legitimate naval stores 
operations, we strongly deprecate and 
denounce the wholesale destruction of 
very young trees by ‘'boxing/’ as a 
reckless discounting of our resources, a 
needless impoverishment of our posteri¬ 
ty, and a grave menace to the balance 
and equability of our climate. 
Resolved, That the Legislature of 
Florida be urged to pass such laws, so 
far as they do not already exist, as shall 
enable counties, cities and towns to give 
proper protection to shade and orna¬ 
mental trees, and to punish all persons 
who shall wantonly destroy or injure 
them. 
