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done would be to have consulted with the 
committee and drawn to its attention the 
very facts presented here tonight. 
Moreover, he says the new bill has 
been approved by the House and Senate, 
and that the bill prepared by your com¬ 
mittee has been rejected. Now, to the 
best of my knowledge and belief, that 
bill has never been presented to the legis¬ 
lature. 
Mr. Gillette: Mr. Temple, I knew 
nothing about the meeting of the exec¬ 
utive committee. I have not spoken to 
one of them in regard to it at all; in fact, 
I did not know they had held a meeting, 
and when I said that, I did not refer to 
the executive committee, but the nur¬ 
serymen. 
Mr. Stewart: I do not know what this 
bill is, but Mr. Gillette’s opposition to it 
makes me rather in favor of it. The very 
fact that doctors, lawyers and merchants 
are held to a strict accountability in the 
transaction of their business, makes it 
proper that nursery men also should be 
held accountable. When they sell us well 
defined varieties of fruit, and charge us 
their regular price for them, they ought 
to be made to see that we get the varie¬ 
ties we pay for. I believe any nursery¬ 
man could guard himself against some¬ 
one putting the wrong buds in his trees. 
I do not believe that any man who comes 
here to Florida to put his money into a 
grove, should run the risk of putting in 
another variety of fruit from what he 
wanted and paid for. I don’t believe 
that if a helper in a nursery “gets sore’ 
at the nursery owner, that the buyer of 
the trees ought to pay for their scrapping. 
So far as the insects are concerned, my 
county has suffered damage amounting 
to thousands of dollars by the introduc¬ 
tion of insects on two or three little, ordi¬ 
nary plants brought there by some nur¬ 
seryman. I do not believe the law can 
be too stringent against the introduction 
and dissemination of insects and diseases, 
or that the nurseryman can be made to 
be too careful about what he is selling to 
us at a fancy price. 
If that is the only objection, I would 
like to see it referred to the Legislature 
and passed. If it is here, I would like to 
hear it read to see whether or not I am 
in favor of it or not, but if the only ob¬ 
jections to it are those given here, I am 
in favor of it. 
Prof. Hume: In relation to the read¬ 
ing of the law, I would be willing to 
have it done, but the law covers consid¬ 
erable space. It is a lengthy law. I do 
not believe we can have it read; still, if 
it is the wish of the Society, we will 
have it done. 
(The bill referred to will be found fol¬ 
lowing this discussion on page 177. Sec¬ 
retary. ) 
Mr. Stewart: I think it should be read 
or referred to a committee. I do not think 
it should be thrown away without any at¬ 
tention being paid to it. The Society 
cannot tell anything about the bill with¬ 
out knowing what is in it. 
Mr. Stockbridge: There is one point 
I would like to call to your attention, 
that is that the same objections made to 
this bill, are practically the identical ob¬ 
jections made in every state in the Union 
to any bill of this character. You will 
remember the first attempt to restrict 
and control the fertilizer trade. When 
the first fertilizer control bill was intro¬ 
duced in this country, in the Massachu- 
