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FLORIDA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY 
portion of a fund which the horticul¬ 
turists and agriculturists have created; 
therefore be it 
Resolved, that this Society heartily 
indorse this bill and urgently request 
its passage. 
M. E. Gillett, Chrm. 
G. L. Taber, 
Isaac A. Stewart, 
, ( O. W. Conner. 
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E. O. Painter. 
Mr. Gillette : I have another short re¬ 
port to make. Believing that this matter 
of legislation was coming up, the com¬ 
mittee present the following: 
DeLand, Fla., April 30, 1913 
To the Florida State Horticultural So¬ 
ciety in Convention Assembled : 
; Your Committee on Legislation af¬ 
ter due and propeC consideration of 
the Green Fruit Law, would most 
respectfully request that we would rec¬ 
ommend that Chapter 6236 of the Laws 
of Florida entitled “An Act to prohibit 
certain dispositions of citrus fruits 
which are immature or otherwise un¬ 
fit for consumption, and the misbrand¬ 
ing of citrus fruits” be retained upon 
our Statute Books without amendment. 
Most respectfully submitted, 
M. E. Gillett, Chrm., 
E. O. Painter, 
Isaac A. Stewart, 
G. L. Taber, 
O. W. Conner, 
Mr. Prouty: I wish to make a mo¬ 
tion that we adopt that report. If you 
please, I want to make an explanation. I 
want to explain to some of the people 
why I am making this motion. I was 
sent up here to make a fight to get some¬ 
thing that would actually stop the traffic 
in green fruit. Now, the members of 
the committee, and also many members 
of this body, contend that if the law as it 
stands is honestly enforced, the shipping 
of green fruit will be suppressed. I 
have come to agree with them. That is 
why I make the motion to adopt the re¬ 
port of the committee to retain the cit¬ 
rus fruit law as it is. 
Mr. Hume: Before putting the motion, 
or throwing it open for discussion, I 
want to make a few remarks, if you will 
permit me, and those will be in relation 
to the handling of this matter. 
Now, in handling this matter of the 
Green Fruit bill and its workings, I am 
exceedingly anxious it be handled in two 
sections. One has now been presented, 
and if there is any discussion, I want the 
question of the Green Fruit Bill as it 
now stands, to be kept actually separate 
from the question of standards. 
I shall now call on Captain Rose to 
make a talk somewhat along the lines he 
made yesterday, explaining what has 
been recommended in the way of a bill. 
I will give him ten minutes to talk, and 
shut him off at the end of that time. I 
am then going to give Professor Collison, 
of the Experiment Station, about five 
minutes ; then I am going to shut him 
off. Then I am going to throw the mat¬ 
ter open for discussion, and a three-min¬ 
ute talk is the limit. We shall have 
three-minute talks until a fair expression 
of opinion is had. We shall have those 
talks in rotation; I mean by that, if a 
man is opposed to a certain standard, he 
shall have three minutes to say why, and 
