INDIANA IIORTICULTUKAL SOCIETY. 503 



.Mr. Isaac Mitclioll: On llie north slope apples often grow better than 

 in any other position, but the apples are of inferior color and quality, 

 and there is a sjri'at deal of splotthing. You would hardly know one was 

 a IJen Davis on the steep north hillside, but on the southern slope they 

 are high in color and high in quality; perhaps lacking in size, and they 

 will not bear so much. Tlie east and west slopes I think are preferable. 



Mr. Rollingor: 1 want to ask two questions. First, when you set out 

 a tree, do you fertilize? 



Mr. Burton: No, not that year. 



Ml-. Kollinger: The next question is, do you want to set the tree in 

 the same position it occupied in the nursery? 



Mr. Burton: No, we do not pay any attention to that. 

 Mr. Rolfuiger: You just plant promiscuously? 



Mr. Burton: Yes; you don't know hoAV they have been placed in the 

 nursery. I do not see how you are to determine that. 



Mr. Rolfinger: AVell, I say that is according to principle, to plant 

 them in the position they occupied in the nursery. 



Mr. Burton: You have no proof of it, you can not tell anything about 

 that. 



Mr. Mitchell: I want to call your attention to the use of air slaked 

 lime about your trees. Mr. Pulliam, one of the largest fruit growers in 

 Centralia, bought some, and said he had the best of luck with it. There 

 are heaps and heaps of that down at jNIilltown, packed up by the thou- 

 sand carloads, and we sprinkle it as high as the limbs of the trees. I 

 have used that, and my trees have done excellently with it; you can get 

 that in any quantity; there are heaps of it down there, as large as this 

 court house. 



Mr. Burton: I never tried that on an orchard. I have seen it used 

 in cultivated fields. l)nt I never observed any effect it had on the pro- 

 duction in the field. 



Mr. Simpson: In southern Illinois I knoAV that it is of benefit. I was 

 over to Centralia and saw some of the effects of it, and we were so im- 

 ))ressed with it that we are going to p*!e it in southern Illinois in our 

 nurseries. 



Mr. Fawcott: Lime is not a fertilizer, is it? If it is a fertilizer you 

 are all right, but if it is not you are robbing the soil of what is to come 

 later. It is a plant food, but not a fertilizer, I believe. 



