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FLORIDA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
Mr. Gaitskill— I have found your sug¬ 
gestions good and anything that is good 
for you will be good for me. 
Mr. Hart—There is an orange clipper 
that they use in California, and here is a 
new one just gotten out which I will 
leave on the desk for you to examine. 
Mr. Quinby—I went with the Califor¬ 
nia party and gathered in a good deal of 
information while out there, and a lot of 
it would be interesting and doubtless in¬ 
structive to this audience. My voice is 
not at its best, but possibly it will improve 
the carrying quality of the Florida 
orange. 
I am connected with the firm of Chase 
& Co., of Jacksonville, who' market con¬ 
siderable of the Florida oranges and oth¬ 
er perishable products. We examined pret¬ 
ty thoroughly into' their marketing system 
while in California; in fact we went into 
the intricacies of it and there has been a 
time set on the ist of June at Tampa to 
bring in reports. 
When we arrived at Los Angeles, Dr. 
Inman called a meeting at the Chamber 
of Commerce, and we undertook to syste¬ 
matize the work for which we had gone 
there. The subject matter was divided in¬ 
to headings, such as packing* houses and 
their appliances, selling, government in¬ 
vestigations, and a number of various 
heads that we wanted to know about, and 
committees were appointed to take up 
specially the matter on which they were 
to be prepared to make reports to the 
meeting at Tampa on the ist of June. I 
was on one or two of these committees, 
and while I took copious notes I have not 
looked over them at all since I came back, 
and I don’t know that I can say anything 
in addition to what Mr. Hart has said, 
except to answer such questions as you 
may ask to the best of my ability. I would 
not undertake to go into 1 full and com¬ 
plete relation of what we saw and heard 
and learned while in California. 
It seems to have been the expectation 
of this meeting to have more or less re¬ 
ports from the committee who went to 
California in a formal way. It was sug¬ 
gested to me that if we passed a resolu¬ 
tion to incorporate into the report of the 
Society the reports and results of the 
meeting 'Which is to be held in Tampa 
next month, then it would be in print for 
the members of this Association and they 
would have the benefit of it in this way. 
I do not know your regular custom, but 
think it would be a good idea to pass a 
resolution now that the Secretary shall 
incorporate into the official report of the 
Florida State Horticultural Society the 
report that is made in Tampa on the ist. 
of June, and then you will have that re¬ 
port in full. 
Mr. Temple—Do you know how much 
their oranges cost them per box on the 
trees out there as a general thing ? 
Mr. Quinby—No, I do not know ; that 
is, interest on investment, working, fer¬ 
tilizing, etc. I should say it is just about 
the same as in Florida for the reason that 
they cultivate a great deal more and they 
spend a great deal more money on irriga¬ 
tion than we do- here, but they are almost 
free from having to' use fertilizer. That 
is almost unknown in California. Their 
oranges are grown on what I have known 
as clay soil. It has more or less of crush¬ 
ed granite and that keeps it loose. They 
do not let anything grow on it except the 
orange trees themselves, and cultivate all 
the year round. 
