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FLORIDA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
REPORT OF THE SECRETARY 
Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen : 
At the Daytona meeting your honor¬ 
able body elected Professor Hume, Mr. 
Taber, Air. Hart and your Secretary del¬ 
egates to the American Pomological So¬ 
ciety, which convened at St. Catharines 
last September. All four were present at 
the meeting. The results of the meeting 
you have in Mr. Taber’s report. 
The same committee was also requested 
to visit Washington and take up with the 
Department the desirability of securing 
some trained person to go abroad and try 
to find some natural enemy to the White- 
fly. Mr. Hart was the only one of the 
committee who could go to Washington, 
and his report will enlighten you as to 
what he learned. 
The matter was also taken up with our 
Senator Fletcher, and a bill was intro¬ 
duced appropriating $10,000 for white- 
fly investigation abroad, but was subse¬ 
quently reduced because Prof. Howard 
reported to the committee that $5,000 
would be sufficient, as he could send Prof. 
Woglum, who would only want his ex¬ 
penses. The orange growers have been dis¬ 
appointed at this, for if the first sum had 
been left, one or two whitefly experts like 
Dr. E. W. Berger or Dr. Back could 
have made an investigation that would 
have more promise, on account of their 
long-continued touch with the whitefly 
problems here. 
Your secretary and Mr. Gillett, of the 
Citrus Exchange, undertook to raise 
some funds for the expense of the white¬ 
fly investigation, but were not very suc¬ 
cessful. The following amounts were 
received: 
W. S. Hart..$25.00 
John T. Pirie. 25.00 
B. F. Chilton. 25.00 
M. S. Sams. 10.00 
G. M. Wakelin. 10.00 
John H. Sams. 10.00 
H. J. Wilmshurst. 5.00 
F. H. Boye. 2.50 
A. L. Ingerson. 1.00 
Robert Taylor. 1.00 
$114.50 
As this amount was too small to do 
any thing with, I have held the checks, 
and await the society’s instructions as to 
what to do with them. 
All of you know that our expenses 
have been running a little behind each 
year, until the deficit piled up to over 
$600.00. In my first circular letter to 
the members, I stated the case, and the re¬ 
sponse has been very liberal. Up to this 
tim)e I have received on this Deficiency 
Fund the following: 
G. L. Taber. .$50.00 
E. O. Painter. 25.00 
P. H. Rolfs. 10.00 
E. S. Hubbard. 10.00 
L. A. Wilson. 15.00 
Chas Sellmer. 3.00 
H. G. Stouder. 1.00 
B. F. Tillinghast. 5.00 
M. Fugazzi & Company. 2.00 
Chase & Company. 19.00 
J. P. Felt. 5.00 
J. T. Chapman. 1.00 
E. M. Condit. 1.00 
