PROCEEDINGS 
OF THE 
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Twenty-First Annual Meeting 
OF THE 
Florida State Horticultural Society 
The Florida State Horticultural 
Society celebrated its twenty-first an¬ 
nual meeting in the beautiful and his¬ 
toric city of Gainesville. It can be said 
of this meeting that it opened with 
the largest attendance of any meeting 
in the history of the Society. There 
have been other meetings when* the 
total number in attendance was larger, 
but at no time was the hall so filled 
with horticulturists from all over the 
state, and with townspeople, as greeted 
the fall of the President's gavel at the 
opening session of this meeting. The 
attendance through the entire session 
was large and the whole time allotted 
for the program was taken up. None 
of the sessions were cut out or cur¬ 
tailed, but the full time put in. 
The members enjoyed the afternoon 
session at the State University and 
Experimental Grounds. They spent 
the time very profitably in going over 
the field and seeing what was being 
done and at the same time seeing what 
was needed to carry on the State work. 
Many a member went home deter¬ 
mined to appeal to his member of the 
Legislature to give the Experiment 
Station more consideration and a 
larger appropriation for its work, at 
the next meeting of the Legislature. 
One address we are not able to give 
in our report was the lecture by Prof. 
PI. Harold Hume on “Adorning the 
Home Place,” which was given com¬ 
plimentary to the people of Gainesville. 
This was a stereopticon lecture illus¬ 
trating the good and bad effects of 
different planting of shrubs and trees. 
The printing of the address without 
the illustrations would take away half 
of its value. As we are unable to print 
these this year, the members who did 
not attend will have to lose the pleas¬ 
ure and profit of Prof. Hume’s lecture. 
When the time for the next place of 
meeting was brought up, Daytona, De- 
Land, Orlando and Jacksonville were 
in the race. On the first ballot it was 
left to DeLand and Daytona, and the 
latter won out by a few votes, con¬ 
sequently the next annual meeting will 
be held at one of the prettiest towns 
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