Proceedings of the Twenty-fourth 
Annual Meeting of the Florida 
State Horticultural Society 
After visiting a number of Florida’s 
most progressive cities, the members of 
the Florida State Horticultural Society 
turned their faces toward Jacksonville to 
hold their twenty-fourth annual meeting 
within the gates of Florida’s metropolis. 
The attendance was not as large as on 
previous occasions, when the meetings 
were held in Jacksonville, or as large as 
when held in some of the smaller places. 
This lack of attendance is partly due to 
the fact that practically no reduction in 
transportation rates were given the mem¬ 
bers. A small reduction was promised 
provided there were 200 members in at¬ 
tendance who actually reached Jackson¬ 
ville by rail or steamer, and this number 
did not attend, hence no reduction was 
allowed. 
Jacksonville, however, was not behind 
in her usual hospitality and looking after 
the interests and pleasure of her visitors. 
Between meetings some of the members 
were treated to auto rides and had other 
entertainment furnished them, but the 
crowning entertainment was given by the 
Jacksonville Board of Trade in furnish¬ 
ing all members in attendance an excur¬ 
sion to Atlantic Beach over the East 
Coast railway with a dinner at the fa¬ 
mous Atlantic Beach Hotel. Notwith¬ 
standing the morning was rainy and dis¬ 
agreeable, and the outlook not very prom¬ 
ising, over a hundred of the members en¬ 
joyed the trip and every one was loud in 
their praise of the splendid dinner that 
was served by Mrs. H. M. Stanford, pro¬ 
prietor of this magnificent seaside hotel. 
After dinner a short session was held 
in the casino and members returned to 
the city in ample time for their supper 
and to attend the evening meeting. 
The evening session was largely taken 
up by discussion of the horticultural bill, 
so much so that Mr. C. H. Hoyt, Super¬ 
intendent of Road Construction of the 
Department of Agriculture was unable 
to deliver his address, very much to the 
regret of many who attended especially 
to hear it. 
When the time for choosing the next 
place of meeting came up there was con¬ 
siderable interest as the good people of 
Gainesville were anxious to have the 
meeting there. Miami had sent up a 
delegation armed with the necessary pa- 
