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Now, is such a thing as that possible in 
Florida? Could you shut out anything 
in Florida? I think it is obligatory on 
every citrus grower to use his influence 
in having a bill like this presented and 
passed. You should make the man who 
represents you swear that he will do ev¬ 
erything in his power to shut out those 
things that you have not yet been afflicted 
with. 
I was in Lakemont a few days ago talk¬ 
ing to one of the growers who is an old 
friend of mine: he said, “ I will vote for 
any law you will have drafted and sent 
up there, in this line.” He said, “We 
will have to have a Horticultural Com¬ 
mission that will have power and money 
behind it to put it in execution, and we 
don’t want any of these wishy-washy 
laws that have a thousand loop-holes you 
can get through.” It has to have the 
State finances behind it and the State po¬ 
lice power behind it. It is the duty of 
every citrus grower to get right after his 
legislators and make them pledge them¬ 
selves to go before the next legislature 
and put such an act through. 
Prof. Rolfs: I will go Mr. Burton one 
better, and say that we not only ought to 
have such a law, but the nurserymen ac¬ 
tually need such protection. The nursery¬ 
men seem to be asleep to their own in¬ 
terests. They have absolutely no protec¬ 
tion of any kind, and nearly every state 
in the Union is beginning to legislate 
against them. We may at any moment 
find that it is impossible to ship our goods 
out of the State, not having anyone to 
officially inspect them. We have been 
rocking along, simply letting the matter 
go on from day to day. It is time the 
nurserymen of the State did something. 
The Nurserymen’s Association should get 
right in touch with this Association and 
have such a law passed as will give the 
State inspector power to act. 
The Experiment Station has gone more 
than its length to help the nurserymen 
out, and I suspect before the next legisla¬ 
ture the Experiment Station will have to 
cease its inspection. The other states have 
taken our certificates because they have 
confidence in Dr. Berger and not because 
they had confidence in anything else. It 
is personal confidence in him. However, 
the inspection as it is now handled is a 
very precarious thing as well as being 
very unsatisfactory to all parties concern¬ 
ed. There is no one who can compel Dr. 
Berger to make an inspection if he does 
not want to do so. I seriously doubt if 
the Federal Government will allow any¬ 
thing like this much longer. 
I really would like to know what the 
nurserymen are going to do when the time 
comes that they cannot have their stock 
certified by Dr. Berger. 
Prof. Hume: I appreciate the fact 
that the nurseryman is worthy of all the 
condemnation that Prof. Rolfs has 
heaped upon him. It certainly does seem 
that they are a “harmless” organization. 
I thoroughly agree with both of the gen¬ 
tlemen who have spoken, that it is time 
something was being done. 
Appointment of Committee on Legis¬ 
lation. 
W. C. Temple, Winter Park. 
Capt. R. E. Rose, Tallahassee. 
