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can make rules to cover the requirements, 
and carry out the law as an act. 
The Board of Control, you understand, 
is the body which governs the Florida 
Experiment Station and the University 
and our school system. Possibly some¬ 
one more familiar with the working of 
that body could give you more informa¬ 
tion than I can. 
Prof. Rolfs: It seems that this nur¬ 
serymen’s bill has been interpreted as 
being broader than it really is. It is 
merely a general rule for covering the in¬ 
spection of nurseries. In regard to the 
bill that was approved by the nursery 
men, I was acquainted with the provis¬ 
ions of that. It legalizes what the Ex¬ 
periment Station had been doing before, 
and it does not cover anything but the 
inspection of the nursery. 
Now, about the question Mr. Griffing 
asks about the Board of Control. The 
Board of Control has charge of all the 
institutions of higher education in the 
state; the Women’s College, the College 
for the Deaf and Blind, the College for 
Negroes, and the University of Florida. 
In regard to the general wording of the 
bill. I do not know that we care to go 
into that particularly, but its general pro¬ 
visions give the Board of Control merely 
the same power that it exercised over Dr. 
Berger before, but in an entirely legal 
way. Before, it was merely semi-legal; 
there was no state inspection for the nur¬ 
series. 
Mr. Temple : Does that law, as you 
are familiar with it, have any power 
whatever on importations with a view of 
shutting out diseases, insects, etc., from 
coming into the state? From what I can 
gather, it affects nursery stock alone. 
Prof. Rolfs: Answering your ques¬ 
tion, I think not. I think it is confined 
to the nursery stock alone. It does not 
affect the general horticultural law we 
need so much for the state. We need 
the horticultural law, and it would greatly 
lessen the work and worry of the Ex¬ 
periment Station if we could have a gen¬ 
eral horticultural law. In this case, the 
nursery men met and asked me to help 
them with a particular bill, and I helped 
them as much as I would help anyone 
else. 
Mr. Tabor: I think it is due to the 
executive committee, and myself as a 
member of it, to say that in our action 
we simply did what we thought to be for 
the best interests of the Society. We 
wanted to leave for the Society to deter¬ 
mine whether or not they wished to en¬ 
dorse this bill. We did not wish to say 
that as the Executive Committee, and yet 
we felt it, and we talked this matter over 
thoroughly. We did not believe, as has 
already been said, that the bill would go 
through the legislature. We did not be¬ 
lieve that the legislature would appropri¬ 
ate the arnonut of money that the passage 
of this bill would entail. We knew that 
we had to do something in the way of 
protection, and there was a bill presented 
to the Executive Committee by the nur¬ 
serymen, to see if they would sanction 
that in place of the Temple-Burton bill. 
The Executive Committee thought that 
they should sanction no bill. They felt 
that if the matter came before the Hor¬ 
ticultural Society, they should thresh it 
out. 
I am sorry that the so-called “Temple 
Bill” is not before you to be read. I am 
sure there is not a member of this So- 
