i6 
FLORIDA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
pers, and Palatka came in as a surprise 
with full fledged invitations. Gainesville 
very gracefully dropped out and left the 
. contest between Miami and Palatka, Mi¬ 
ami winning by only a small majority. 
The next meeting, therefore, will be 
held at the phenomenal city of Miami, 
next May, and if the good people of the 
East Coast do as well as they did on a 
previous occasion it will mark the larg¬ 
est attendance of any meeting up to that 
time. It is expected by that time the rail¬ 
road “over the sea” will be completed. 
The members expressed themselves as 
well pleased with the royal entertainment 
given them by the people of Jacksonville 
and the Jacksonville Board of Trade, 
which kept up its reputation of not do¬ 
ing things by halves. 
Minutes 
FIRST DAY. 
Evening Session. 
Call to Order, President H. Harold 
Hume, Glen St. Mary. 
Address of Welcome on Behalf of the 
City—Mayor W. S. Jordan, Jacksonville. 
Response—Prof. P. H. Rolfs, Gaines¬ 
ville. 
Address of Welcome in Behalf of the 
Board of Trade—President F. P. Con- 
roy, Jacksonville. 
Response—Mr. G. L. Taber, Glen St. 
Mary. 
President’s Annual Address—Prof. H. 
Harold Hume. 
Introduction of Question Box. 
Social Hour. 
SECOND DAY. 
Morning Session. 
Address, “Brief History of Florida 
Entomology” — Dr. E. W. Berger, 
Gainesville. 
Discussion. 
Motion carried that the Chair appoint 
a Committee to draft a set of resolutions 
to be forwarded to the President of the 
University, asking that a course be in¬ 
augurated to instruct in the proper meth¬ 
ods of controling insect pests. Committee 
appointed—Messrs. Skinner, Conner and 
Driscoll. 
Insects and Diseases—Prof. H. S. 
Fawcett, Gainesville. 
Discussion. 
Address, “Recent Results of Spraying 
Experiments for the Control of the 
Whitefly”—W. W. Yothers, Orlando. 
Discussion. 
Tropical Fruits—Mrs. P. H. Rolfs, 
Gainesville. 
Afternoon Session. 
Address, “The Florida Fruit Ex¬ 
change”—R. P. Burton, Tampa. 
Adoption of Resolution presented by 
the Board of Trade, Jacksonville, Flor¬ 
ida, approving the bill before the legis- 
