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FLORIDA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY 
ly used. I communicated with the con¬ 
vention of orange growers, sent them 
the result of my labors and that of oth¬ 
ers, and received this wire from the con¬ 
vention as a whole, saying that my rec¬ 
ommendations were accepted, with two 
alterations; that instead of 1.25 per cent, 
acid for oranges and 1.60 per cent, acid 
for grapefruit, they had amended my 
suggestion to 1.30 for oranges and 1.75 
per cent, acid for grapefruit, as fol¬ 
lows :' 
“The Florida Fruit and Vegetable Growers’ 
League, in convention assembled, instructed the 
undersigned committee to advise you of the re¬ 
ceipt and endorsement of your communication re¬ 
garding supplemental legislation in the Green 
Fruit Law, and the convention voted one amend¬ 
ment to your suggestion; namely, the acid con¬ 
tent to be 1.30 per cent, for oranges, and 1.75 per 
cent, for grapefruit. With these two changes you 
are authorized to proceed as suggested by you. 
Please acknowledge receipt and verify your un¬ 
derstanding of this wire. 
(Signed) 
“FRANCIS W. PERRY, 
“A. H. BROWN, 
“L. B. SKINNER.” 
The chairman of that meeting inform¬ 
ed me yesterday that this was an authen¬ 
tic communication. Following along the 
lines of these instructions, I had prepared 
a bill and submitted it to one of our most 
capable Legislators, Mr. Worley, of 
Dade. Mr. Worley’s constituents had 
instructed Mr. Worley to prepare a stand¬ 
ard along the lines of an acid test, but 
eliminating (the date for shipment of 
grapefruit, claiming they had grapefruit 
big and ripe and ready to ship before the 
first of October. 
I had provided for that condition in 
the bill. I will read the first section of 
that bill. I brought with me here 
enough copies of the bill to supply every 
member of the Society, together with a 
pamphlet showing how I had reached my 
conclusions. 1 
I will read the title: 
“AN ACT to Define Immature Citrus 
Fruit; to Fix Standards for Mature 
Citrus Fruit; to Place the Execution 
of the Immature Citrus Fiuit Law, 
Chapter 6236, Laws of Florida, With¬ 
in the Iurisdiction of the Department 
of Agriculture, as Provided for In the 
Pure Food and Drugs Law of the 
State of Florida; to Provide for the 
Appointment of a State } and Four Lo¬ 
cal Citrus Fruit Inspectors, Fix Their 
Compensation and to Appropriate the 
Necessary Funds for the Execution 
of This Laze A 
That is the title. It does not interfere 
with the Green Fruit Law. It is simply 
as I said—a standard. I am only sorry 
we have not such a standard for intoxi¬ 
cants. It is the crux of the whole bill. 
“Section 1. That all oranges or grape¬ 
fruit that are the result of bloom oc¬ 
curring during the calendar year shall 
be defined as immature citrus fruit, when 
detached from the tree prior to October 
first of the year in which the bloom oc¬ 
curred, which produced the fruit. 
“That from October 1 to December 31 
of each year all oranges grown from the 
current calendar year’s bloom, the juice 
of which contains more than 1.30 per 
cent, by weight of acid, calculated as 
crystallized citric acid, and all grapefruit 
grown from the current calendar year's 
bloom, the juice of which contains more 
than 1.75 per cent, by weight of acid, cal- 
