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 BUTZER SEED STORE, 180-190 Front St., Portland, Oregon 



Prune and Grafted Walnut Trees 



Also Apples, Pears, Peaches, Plums, Apricots, Cherries, Small Fruit Plants, Etc. 



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so striking a difference in the size of 

 the foliage, however, — that on the fer- 

 tilized trees is largest. The color and 

 general appearance of foliage on these 

 respective areas is quite pronounced. 

 The tree fertilized but one year pre- 

 sents as vigorous an appearance as 

 those that have been treated longer, 

 and those that received the nitrate on 

 the branches alone are not perceptibly 

 more vigorous than the check trees 

 that have received no treatment — in 

 fact they are less thrifty. 



All the trees to which nitrate of soda 

 was applied in 1014, at the rate of 6% 

 pounds, appeared to have been re- 

 turned to full noriual vigor. The sec- 

 ond application, as is indicated by a 

 heavy wood growth in addition to the 

 production of a heavy crop of fruit in 

 191.1, shows that one pound of nitrogen 

 each year is too large an application 

 for each tree. Fully one pound of 

 nitrogen should be applied the first 

 year, but the subsequent applications 

 should be not over half as heavy. By 

 this carefidly conducted and thorough 

 test to find if nitrogen applied in liquid 

 form to the tops of fruit trees has a 

 stimulating effect upon the tree, not one 

 indication has so far been found that 

 it has. On the other hand, it is jdainly 

 shown that regardless of the manner in 

 which the element is applied to the soil, 

 whether in liquid or crystaline form, it 

 gives very strong and prompt invigorat- 

 ing intluence to the plant. This deter- 

 mination, although startling in its effect 

 upon the yield and vigor of fruit trees, 

 appears to be of no great sicentific im- 

 ])ortance. However, it is of very great 

 economic significance owing to the 

 iiniJ(M-tant practical probleiris upon 

 which it throws a strong light. The 

 three most important results of the 

 work are: (1) It shows plainly the 

 extent to which the nitrogen store of 

 the soil has been depleted by the long- 

 continued system of culture that has 

 been practiced, and the great rapidity 

 with which the trees can be restored to 

 normal vigor by application of this ele- 

 ment. (2) As no beneficial influence of 

 sufficient importance to be observed 

 has resulted to the physical character 

 of the soil from the application of 

 nitrogen in the form of nitrate of soda, 

 the use of nitrogen in this form should 

 be very liniitetl. It finds its greatest 

 value for the purpose of stimulating 

 very weak trees until such time as 

 leguiiunous crops can be grown and 

 turned into the soil. (.3) When nitrate 

 of soda, as a source of nitrogen for 

 devitalized and unfruitful fruit trees, 

 is to be applied it can be done more 

 cheaply and with equal results by dis- 

 tributing the crystals upon the ground 

 in cai-ly spring and working them in 

 instead of going to the expense of pre- 

 paring a solution and applying it in the 

 form of a spray. 



The cost of nitrogen in nitrate of 

 soda applied at the above rale is ap- 

 proximately -Slfi.flO per acre. An aver- 

 age crop of vetch, which can be grown 

 for •'<10.0ll or less, accumulates about 

 71 poimds of nitrogen, approximately 

 as much as was applied to these trees. 



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