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Mr. White — I tliiuk that Mr. Morrill's question refers to fruit trees 

 in foliag-e. The strength of lime and sulphur spray must be governed by 

 different conditions. If the x>ressure of the spray outfit is extremely low, 

 most any strength will burn foliage, that is. if the spray is coarse it will 

 bum more readily. Now we recommend for spraying say about 175 to 

 200 pounds pressure and then use the standard testing lime-sulphur 1 to 

 50 for ])ears; for plums and sweet and sour cherries, 1 to 40. T know 

 they will bear that strength, apples, 1 to 40. In the case of peaches and 

 Japan plums, we don't know and we do not make any recommendations 

 for them for 1 to 25, 1. to 50, 1 to 100, 1 to 125 or even 1 to 135 have, in 

 some cases, caused entire defoliation and in others none at all. There is 

 no strength we know to be safe that is strong enough to be efficient. 



Mr. Morrill — Can't you spray with double strength before seven o'clock 

 that you can spray with at noon? 



Mr. White — I could not say positively. 



A Member — ^Mr. White spoke of thorough spraying. I would like to 

 ask if he would consider a pressure between 150 and 200 pounds and 

 spraying until the leaves start to drip and if giving: the entire tree as 

 much as the fruit can carry, a thorough spraying. 



Mr. White — Not necessarily. Thorough spraying is this: when every 

 side of every apple and every side of every leaf and every side of every 

 liml) is completely covered, you Imve done a thorough job of spraying. 



The foliage of Ja{»an plums is practically as tender as the peach 

 foliage. 



A Member — I have not found that it was and I am particularly in- 

 terested. 



Mr. White — That is our observation and experience in a great number 

 of cases. 



Mr. Morrill — The peach is the tricky one. 



PRESIDENT MTTNSON'H ADDRESS AT THE OPENING OF THE 

 44TH ANNUAL MEETING IN KALAMAZOO. 



Ladies and Gentlemen, Fellow Horticulturists: 



I am glad to be here and to be able to greet so many of my good 

 friends of the fruit-groAving fraternity of this great State. This attend- 

 ance of the Annual meeting of the State Horticultural has become a habit 

 in our family, an event to look foinvard to, and I infer it is to quite a 

 number of the good horticultural families, for we see a goodly number 

 of the same familiar faces at the meetings, wherever the meeting is 

 held. 



This has been a fairly successful year for most Michigan horticul- 

 turists. We have been blessed with large crops— very large crops — 'most 

 of us, and there have been no flat failures in any sort of fruit. There 

 has been a market — a paying one — for good fruit of any class. We have 

 all known prices to te less than they have been this season. 



During this Avar time, when "business is unsettled" and all other in- 

 dustries are more or less demoralized the grower of good fruit is pros- 



