108 
FLORIDA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
who could not learn many things from 
you. 
You must wake up to the importance 
of organization. We have to do 1 it some 
time, and why not now ? Why wait 
another year and get returns that will 
barely pay the running expenses ; per¬ 
haps not that. These men in California 
are reaping a rich harvest as a result of 
their organization. We must take some 
decided action if we expect to get any¬ 
thing in the way of returns. 
I feel that it is incumbent upon the 
Chair to reinforce Mr. Hart’s and Mr. 
Quinby’s remarks. Get your local papers, 
if you can, to call attention to it and let 
it be the beginning of organization that 
will give Florida her rights which she has 
been denied so long. Who is to' blame for 
it? Who is responsible for the condi¬ 
tions that are existing today, where we, 
who grow the best oranges on earth, can 
hardly make the expenses necessary to 
grow them? You have m> one but your¬ 
self to blame. In your strenuous opposi¬ 
tion to each other you have forgotten that 
it is only in union that there is strength. 
Fighting each other, you are like the Kil¬ 
kenny cats; in joining forces you may 
assume proportions that will win you the 
victory over all opposition. Don’t let this 
matter fill you with enthusiasm for the 
time being, and then be forgotten. Join 
forces with the most influential men, the 
brainiest men, the most successful men 
and help them to make this thing a suc¬ 
cess. You have everything to gain and 
nothing to lose. 
Dr. Richardson—I have been testing 
these clippers. I don’t know what Mr. 
Hart intended to do for the people of 
California in bringing these as samples 
but have been testing them on some rose 
stems here on the desk. The clippers from 
California do not cut rose stems every 
time, while Mr. Hart’s clipper cuts them 
every time. 
