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FLORIDA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
(d) To require the disinfection of all trees, 
ornamental shrubbery, orchard's, nurseries or 
nursery stock, fruit-packing houses, or other 
places infested with any pests, fungi, or dis¬ 
ease injurious to the horticultural industry of 
the State of Florida; 
(e) Inspect and examine orchards, fruit, 
nursery stock and other horticultural plants 
and products at the request of the owner 
thereof, and report to the applicant the result 
of such investigation and prescribe proper 
remedies therefor; 
(f) Prevent the shipping and sale of in¬ 
fected fruit except for canning, preserving or 
jellying, or the making of cider, or manufac¬ 
ture of other by-products, within the State of 
Florida, and under such rules and regulations 
as may be established by the State Commis¬ 
sioner of Horticulture, and the delivery, sale, 
planting and shipping of infected nursery 
stock, trees, and other horticultural products 
and supplies, by notifying the owner thereof, 
or the person having the same in charge, and 
requiring the proper disinfection of the same; 
(g) To disinfect, or cause to be disinfect¬ 
ed, orchards, nursery stock, trees, fruit and 
other horticultural products and supplies, in 
case the owner or person having the same in 
charge, shall not do so after notice; and in 
case of trees, fruit, etc., which cannot be prop¬ 
erly disinfected, to destroy the same, or cause 
the same to be destroyed; 
(h) To sort and' repack, or cause to be 
sorted and repacked, infected fruit, if the own¬ 
er thereof, or the person having the same in 
charge shall not do so after notice; 
(i) Prevent the introduction and spread 
of diseases of, or pests injurious to fruit trees 
and horticultural plants, fruit and other pro¬ 
ducts, and to prescribe and specify the means 
and methods to be employed for the disin¬ 
fection of trees, fruit and horticultural pro¬ 
ducts; 
(j) To issue certificates of inspection to 
nurserymen and tree dealers on stock inspect¬ 
ed, and, 
(k) Furnish to the Board of County Com¬ 
missioners of each county, wholly or partially 
within their respective districts, an estimate 
of their expenses for each year. 
Section 13. No district horticultural in¬ 
spector shall act as agent or solicitor for the 
sale or distribution of any nursery stock or 
horticultural products, or recommend any nur¬ 
sery to prospective purchasers of fruit trees, 
or act as agent for supplies or machinery for 
use in orchards or engage in the purchase or 
sale of fruits or horticultural products from 
any orchard save his own. 
Section 14. The State of Florida is hereby 
divided into three horticultural districts, the 
boundaries and descriptions of said districts 
being as follows—to-wit: 
District No. 1—Shall comprise and include 
♦Santa Rosa, Escambia, Walton, Holmes, 
Washington, Jackson, Liberty, Calhoun, 
Franklin, Gadsden, Jefferson, Wakulla, Leon, 
Madison, Taylor, Lafayette, Hamilton, Suwa- 
nee, Columbia, Nassau, Duval, Clay, St. Johns. 
Alachua, Bradford, Putnam, Levy and Baker 
counties. 
District No. 2—Shall comprise and include 
Marion, Citrus, Hernando, Sumter, Lake, Or¬ 
ange, Volusia, Brevard, Dade and St. Lucie 
counties. 
District No. 3—Shall comprise and include 
DeSoto, Polk, Manatee, Pasco, Hillsborough, 
Lee, Munroe and Osceola counties. 
♦Section 15. No persons, firm or corpora¬ 
tion shall engage in, continue in, or carry on 
the business of selling or dealing in nursery 
stock, fruit trees, or ornamental shrubbery, or 
solicit purchasers of nursery stock, fruit trees 
or ornamental shrubbery within this State, or 
engage in the business of importing into this 
♦State for sale or distribution, nursery stock, 
fruit trees, or ornamental shrubbery, either as 
owner thereof, or as the agent of such owner, 
without first obtaining a license to carry on 
and conduct such business in this State. 
Section 16. The form of license shall be 
prescribed by the State Commissioner of Hor¬ 
ticulture, and shall be issued by him upon 
application therefor. All licenses shall run 
for one year from the date of issue. The 
license fee shall be $5.00 per annum for nur¬ 
serymen and tree dealers and $1.00 per annum 
for agents, salesmen or solicitors. 
The State Commissioner of Horticulture 
shall prescribe the form of application for 
licenses, and no license shall be issued until 
the license fee shall have 'been paid, and bond 
furnished as herein provided. All licenses shall 
be issued in the name of the owner, solicitor, 
