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FLORIDA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
Resolved: That the Secretary of this 
Society be authorized to issue invitations 
to the State Horticultural Societies of 
Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, 
Georgia, North Carolina, South Caroli¬ 
na, Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee, 
and to the Horticultural Societies of 
Cuba and Porto Rico to meet with us at 
the time of the next meeting of the 
American Pomological Society. 
Now, ladies and gentlemen, I wish to 
relate to you a bit of history: Our Flor¬ 
ida State Horticultural Society was or¬ 
ganized at Ocala, April io, 1888, a lit¬ 
tle over 22 years ago . Our charter 
members numbered 18. The very first 
work done by this society, after its or¬ 
ganization and election of officers, was 
preparation to receive and entertain the 
American Pomological Society, which 
was to meet in this State in the follow¬ 
ing February, 1889. In addition to the 
American Pomological Society, the Geor¬ 
gia State Horticultural Society was in¬ 
vited to meet with us. The three soci¬ 
eties met at Ocala on Feb. 20, 1889, in 
the large building of the Semi-Tropical 
Exposition, where was on exhibit one of 
the finest displays of citrus and other 
fruits that has ever been made in the 
State. In welcoming the visiting socie¬ 
ties, our president, Dudley W. Adams, 
said, in part: 
“During a somewhat busy life it has 
been my good fortune to perform many 
very pleasant duties, but among them all 
none ever gave me more pleasure than 
now, in behalf of the infant State Hor¬ 
ticultural Society of Florida, to receive 
as our guests that full grown giant, the 
American Pomological Society. 
“To be thus honored by the presence 
of the foremost pomological society of 
the world would seem to fill to the brim 
our cup of satisfaction, but when, as to¬ 
day, we can also take by the hand that 
stalwart organization, the State Horti¬ 
cultural Society of our big sister, 
Georgia, then, truly, our cup runneth 
over. 
“With the reverence due from youth 
to age, with the respect due from the stu¬ 
dent to his teacher, with the affection 
due from the child to his parents, we bid 
you welcome to our State, our city, our 
homes, our hearts/’ 
Since that time President Adams, and 
most of the other seventeen charter mem¬ 
bers, have gone to their long reward, 
but, to a certain extent, history repeats 
itself, and we are now to have the 
pleasure of welcoming again to our State 
the foremost Pomological Society of the 
Western Hemisphere—'which means the 
foremost in the world. It is a great 
pleasure to me to announce their coming, 
and it now remains for this society to 
take such active measures as shall insure 
to our honored guests the hospitality that 
is due them Io receive—and us to give. 
This society, the city that may be se¬ 
lected, and the State of Florida, should 
unite in tendering them a welcome that 
will be a royal one. Remember that the 
American Pomological Society represents 
in its membership, not only each of the 
United States of America, but Canada, 
Cuba, Manitoba, Australia, Japan, New 
Mexico, Hawaii and other foreign coun¬ 
ties. At the time of their previous meet¬ 
ing in Florida, the railroads of the State 
had their representatives in Ocala, to ar- 
