Legislative Report 
Mr. Hume: I want to bring up at this 
time the report of the legislative com¬ 
mittee appointed at Orlando last year. 
This consisted of Mr. Temple, Mr. Bur¬ 
ton, Mr. Rose and Dr. Inman. Dr. In¬ 
man is no longer with us. 
Mr. Temple : Mr. President, I wish to 
say on behalf of that Committee that we 
took up this matter and threshed it out 
pretty thoroughly; we also made consid¬ 
erable personal investigation as to what 
had been done in other states, and had 
considerable advice on the subject, and 
after thorough investigation it was de¬ 
cided that a slight modification of the law 
as existing in the State of Washington 
would be followed closely, as that was 
admitted to be the cleanest-cut, most ef¬ 
fective horticultural law in the United 
States. We, therefore, after consultation 
with attorneys had drawn up a bill that 
followed very closely the law as existing 
in Washington, only changing it where it 
was advised by counsel to meet our pe¬ 
culiar or particular state conditions. That 
bill as prepared, was submitted to the 
president, Mr. Hume, and also your Ex¬ 
ecutive Committee, and any further re¬ 
port would be in their hands, not in ours. 
The committee performed to the best of 
its ability, the duties imposed upon them, 
and that duty was at an end when it 
placed its report in the hands of your 
president and executive committee. 
Prof. Hume: At the time this bill was 
referred to the president for action, Mr. 
Temple referred it to me with the idea 
of having it sanctioned by the Society, 
and I referred it to the Executive Com¬ 
mittee, and I would be pleased to hear 
from the chairman of that committee in 
regard to the action taken on this bill 
as drafted by our Legislative Committee 
of last season. 
Prof. Rolfs: The meeting of the 
Executive Committee at Gainesville took 
place at Gainesville during the time of 
the meeting of the Seminar, at which all 
of the members, excepting Mr. Hubbard, 
were present; I believe it was decided to 
refer it back to the Society without rec¬ 
ommendation. That is all the report I 
can give. 
Prof. Hume: The report of the com¬ 
mittee was taken up, and on motion it 
was carried that the executive committee 
take no action, but refer the whole matter 
to the Society for its consideration. That 
brings the report of our legislative com¬ 
mittee back to the Society for its dis¬ 
posal. What is your pleasure with re¬ 
gard to the report of our legislative com¬ 
mittee? I do not think I need to go into 
any of the details of the law that was 
drawn up; most of you are already famil¬ 
iar with it; nearly all of you get the Flor¬ 
ida Grower, where it was published. 
Nobody seems to want to say anything. 
It puts me in mind of an old-fashioned 
