216 
FLORIDA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY 
Second Resolution on Crop Pest Bill. 
The following report of the Commit¬ 
tee on Legislation was introduced and 
unanimously adopted: 
DeLand, Fla., April 30, 1913. 
Your Committee on Legislation 
would beg to report that they have had 
before them and given due and proper 
consideration to Senate Bill No. 218, 
known as the “Crop Pest Bill,” intro¬ 
duced by Senator Drane. We would 
beg to say that we consider this bill 
one of the most important ever brought 
before the convention, and it should 
have the unanimous support of this 
State Horticultural Society. 
Chairman, 
M. E. Gillett, 
E. O. Painter, 
Isaac A. Stewart, 
G. L. Taber, 
O. W. Conner, 
Committee on Legislation. 
THE PRESIDENT’S ADDRESS. 
The committee to whom the Presi¬ 
dent’s annual address was referred sub¬ 
mitted the following report, which was 
unanimously accepted: 1 
To the Florida State Horticultural 
Society : 
Your committee to whom was re¬ 
ferred the President’s annual address, 
having carefully considered the same, 
beg to submit the following preamble 
and resolutions: 
To the Legislature , State of Florida, and 
National Congress'. 
Whereas , It is evident to the mem¬ 
bers of the Society that there is great 
danger of the introduction into the 
State of the Med. Fruit Fly, Spanish 
Red Scale, Mexican Orange Maggot 
and similar pests which attack both cit¬ 
rus and deciduous fruits and many of 
our vegetables and agricultural prod¬ 
ucts as enumerated in the most impres¬ 
sive and interesting annual address of 
our President; therefore be it 
Resolved , That the Florida State 
Horticultural Society, assembled in an¬ 
nual session, order said address printed 
and copies supplied to the members of 
the State Legislature now assembled 
at Tallahassee, accompanied by copies 
of these resolutions. And be it further 
resolved that the Society hereby 
(unanimously) endorse the provisions 
of the Crop Pest Bill, now pending be¬ 
fore the Legislature, known as Senate 
Bill No. 218, as affording necessary 
measures for the exclusion of these 
pests and safeguarding the horticultu¬ 
ral and agricultural interests of the 
State. 
We do, therefore, respectfully re¬ 
quest the support of every member of 
the Legislature for said Senate Bill 
No. 218. 
C. M. Grifffng, 
G. M. Wakerlin, 
T. R. Robinson, 
Committee. 
