FLORIDA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY 
XXVIJ 
with similar committees from the Florida 
State Florists’ Association and the State 
Federation of Women’s Clubs, to discuss 
and decide concerning a State Flower 
Show, a meeting of the combined com¬ 
mittees was held in Orlando. It was 
unanimously decided to hold the show in 
Orlando in April, 1923, during the week 
the Horticultural Society and State Flor¬ 
ists are in session there. An organization 
was perfected to have charge of the de¬ 
tails of the show, of which N. A. Rea- 
soner, of Oneco, was elected chairman 
and director-in-charge, with Mr. F. W. 
Fletcher, of Orlando, as superintendent of 
exhibits. A number of other organiza¬ 
tions will be asked to co-operate and the 
show will doubtless attract State-wide in¬ 
terest. 
For several years the 
Horticultural Socie¬ 
ty has had difficulty 
in meeting the expense of the publication 
of its proceedings and meeting its other 
current expenses with its income from the 
annual membership fee of one dollar. 
During 1920, owing to the great increase 
in cost of printing, the cost of printing a 
copy of the Proceedings was in excess of 
one dollar, leaving the society a consider¬ 
able deficit to meet. Thanks to the gen¬ 
erosity of several members of the society, 
this deficit has been made up. In fairness 
to those who have always contributed lib¬ 
erally to meet deficits in the past, and be¬ 
cause lack of funds was curtailing some 
of the activities of the society, it was de¬ 
cided best to increase the annual member¬ 
ship fee. A resolution was introduced 
and adopted to increase this fee to two 
dollars, beginning January 1, 1923. No 
increase was made in the life membership 
fee, which remains at twenty-five dollars. 
The total member¬ 
ship at time of going 
to press is 1,763, 
made up as follows: 
Honorary members _ 9 
Patron members _ 36 
Perennial members_ 13 
Life members_ 133 
Annual members_1,572 
Total____1,763 
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This is more than two hundred less than 
the total of last year, which was even 
2,000. The society is indebted to Mrs. 
Geo. W. Peterkin and to Mr. S. L. Mc- 
Clanahan and his associates for their ef¬ 
forts in maintaining the membership of 
the society. The work is arduous and 
deserves much credit. 
Four honorary mem¬ 
bers were elected at 
this meeting. These 
were Dr. David Fairchild, of Coconut 
Grove, Florida and Washington, D. C., 
who is agricultural explorer in charge of 
Foreign Seed and Plant Introduction of 
the United States Department of Agri¬ 
culture, and who, with his co-workers, is 
doing much to develop the avocado and 
sub-tropical fruit industry in Florida; E. 
S. Hubbard, of Federal Point, who, while 
not a charter member of the society, 
joined soon afterward and was a member 
of the Executive Committee from 1894 to 
1921, and a wheel horse in the society for 
Annual Member¬ 
ship Fee Increased 
to $2.00 
1922 Membership 
Honorary Members 
