Report of Committee on Final Resolutions 
Your committee recognize the fact that 
final resolutions are, to a greater or less 
extent, formal resolutions, and adopted 
by a body of this character as a final bow 
to its hosts and a courteous “goodbye.” 
But your committee wish to make it 
clear to our hosts, as well as to the Socie¬ 
ty, that we should fall far short of our 
own purposes and intentions, if we fail 
to impress the Society with the thought 
that our hosts and this city of DeLand, 
as well as all contributing factors in our 
success, are deserving and should be ac¬ 
corded more than a mere formal set of 
resolutions. In the first place, no strang¬ 
er first entering this gem of a city could 
possibly fail to be impressed with its nat¬ 
ural and artificial beauty, its exceptional 
cleanliness, its handsome avenues, well 
laid streets, its lovely and attractive 
homes. Evidently some one possessed of 
civic pride is constantly and persistently 
at work, and DeLand can well be held up 
to other and older, as well as younger 
towns and cities, as a model of up-to- 
date progressiveness, and manifest munic¬ 
ipal activity, not surpassed by any city in 
the State. It has been a pleasure and a 
privilege to have been here in this midst, 
and to have shared and enjoyed the boun¬ 
tiful hospitality of its citizens, and its 
public institutions; therefore be it 
Resolved , By the Florida State Horti¬ 
cultural Society, that we beg to extend 
to the citizens of DeLand, to its hotels 
and public institutions, to the Business 
Men's League, to the Civic League, to 
the press in this city, and to the most 
courteous and efficient local Committee of 
Arrangements and Reception, Messrs. A. 
E. Douglass, John P. Cairns, H. B. Stev¬ 
ens, Samuel Jordan, Dr. Voorhis and Mr. 
C. O. Codrington, editor of the News, our 
sincere appreciation of their many kind¬ 
nesses and courtesies which have contrib¬ 
uted so largely to the success of this meet¬ 
ing. Especially do we wish to extend to 
the president and faculty, and to the stu¬ 
dent body of Stetson University, the 
thanks of this body for their cordial re¬ 
ception and for the excellent and most en¬ 
joyable entertainment afforded by them 
on the evening of Wednesday, the 30th. 
But there have been other contribu¬ 
tory causes to the success of this meeting. 
Amongst these, your committee mention 
the efficient, constant and faithful ser¬ 
vices of our executive officers, Prof. Hi. 
Harold Hume, Mr. E. O. Painter, and 
Mr. W. S. Hart. 
With a live, enthusiastic and devoted 
executive force, a society such as this 
may hope for and achieve success; with¬ 
out such an executive, the society would 
be doomed to failure. Be it therefore 
Resolved, That the thanks of this So¬ 
ciety are hereby extended to its efficient, 
faithful and competent President, Secre¬ 
tary and Treasurer. 
Beyond these agencies of helpful 
achievement, this Society owes to itself, 
and to those immediately concerned, some 
