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FLORIDA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
Congressman, and he will help you 
to get them. 
Mr. Gaitskill—I would suggest that 
Mr. Hart get up a resolution to be 
passed by this meeting, and the secre¬ 
tary do as he has done—present it to 
the Secretary of Agriculture. At the 
same time, we, each and every one, get 
our friends and neighbors and all to 
write a letter to the Secretary of Agri¬ 
culture and to both Senators and to 
the Congressmen, asking them to see 
that this thing is attended to. By that 
means there may be something done. 
It is the constant dropping of water 
that wears away a stone. If you can’t 
write a letter, write a postal card, but 
let's do something. 
I move that Mr. Hart prepare a re¬ 
solution and present it to the meet¬ 
ing, we pass it and put the matter be¬ 
fore the Congressmen and the Secre¬ 
tary of Agriculture in the regular way. 
Then each and every member of the 
Horticultural Society, and not stop¬ 
ping with the members, but get all our 
friends who are interested in the mat¬ 
ter, to write to the Secretary of Agri¬ 
culture, to the Senators, to the Con¬ 
gressman from his district, and see 
that this resolution is acted upon. 
Mr. Hart—I don’t think that I could 
formulate any better resolution than 
that which has been passed repeatedly 
by this Association, and I think most 
of you remember what is in it. It 
states our needs and states the effect 
of the disease; it states the conditions 
that make it difficult to combat in¬ 
dividually and without the organized 
effort, and I think to just readopt it 
would be all that is necessary. I could 
not, on such short time, undertake to 
write anything near so good. 
I think, Mr. President, that Mr. 
Gaitskill’s motion is a good one, and 
I second it heartily, only I am afraid 
that if we merely pass the resolution 
nobody will do anything. I would sug¬ 
gest that we have a show of hands of 
those who will act in the matter. 
Prof. Rolfs—You have all heard the 
resolution, and those of you who are 
in favor of the motion, and who will 
write to the Congressmen and the Sen¬ 
ators as suggested, please rise to your 
feet. 
(Nearly every member responded 
by rising to his feet, thereby promis¬ 
ing to urge it on our representatives 
in person or a letter.) 
Mr. Hart—Now I am sure we will 
get something done. 
Mr. Gaitskill—I know that our Con¬ 
gressmen are glad to help us in any 
way ; and if they are not, we can do 
a lot to keep them from being sent 
back. 
The resolutions were adopted and are 
as follows : 
Whereas, The orange growers of 
Florida are annually suffering the loss of 
many thousands of dollars in the reduc¬ 
tion of their fruit crop and still more in 
the market value of their groves through 
a disease known as orange tree blight, 
which usually selects the largest and most 
productive trees for the attack; and 
Whereas, Though the disease has 
been carefully studied for many years by 
very ’able Department experts, it is not 
yet well enough known to allow of its 
positive identification, in many cases, be¬ 
fore the second or third year after its 
appearance, while investigations pretty 
surely prove that the disease is con¬ 
tagious, which makes each diseased tree 
