360 State Horticultural Society. 



is : What shall be brought in through the back door ? Alanure is 

 good, so is rock phosphate, but reason tells us that there are other things 

 still to be added. Something is needed to give color to the fruit. Mu- 

 riate of potash is good for this purpose, and applied at the rate of one 

 quart per tree has given me good results. 



The time of picking fruit has its influence on the time of ripening 

 of the following. Late picking and strong feeding aid in late ripening. 

 This is desirable with fall or winter apples. Do not pick fall apples be- 

 fore the middle of October. The orchard year consists of twelve months, 

 not the four between blooming and ripening of fruit, and during the en- 

 tire twelve months the orchard should be carefully watched and attended 

 to with absolute thoroughness. 



VARIOUS PLANS OF CULTIVATION. 



(P. K. Sylvester, Sunlight, Mo.) 



Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen : 



As your worthy Secretary has assigned me to the subject of "Vari- 

 ous Plans of Cultivation," I will endeavor to give some of my experi- 

 ences and observations. 



There has been so much written and said already on this subject 

 that there seems little left that has not been already covered. But as 

 individual experiences differ one from another, and no two persons have 

 exactly the same results, it seems good for us to meet and tell our ex- 

 periences one to another, tell of our successes and our failures, and 

 thereby gain knowledge that it would otherwise take years of experience 

 to gain. 



We read in our horticultural and agricultural papers of the success 

 of some of our friends in another state along some certain line of work. 

 We try the same thing under different soil and climatical conditions, 

 and perhaps for only one season, possibly make a failure of it, and are 

 too quick to condemn the methods of our other successful neighbor. 



In the cultivating of our orchards and vineyards there are various 

 plans adopted, all of which are expected to reach the same end, namely, 

 a good, healthy, vigorous tree and vine, and above all, a rousing big 

 crop of fruit that will bring the top of the market. 



Results are what we are all striving for, and in no other way 

 can we reach them so quickly and successfully as we can by some means 

 of cultivation. 



