SATURDAY AFTERNOON SESSION, 2 O'CLOCK 



With the Massachusetts Horticultural Society 

 Hon. Wilfrid Wheeler in the Chair 



THE CHAIRMAN : This session of the program is held 

 by the Massachusetts Horticultural Society in its regular 

 lecture course. We have already had two of our Saturday 

 a'fternoon meetings, and next Saturday afternoon we are to 

 have with us Dr. George T. Moore, of the ^lissouri Botanical 

 Gardens, who will give us an illustrated lecture on those 

 gardens, and we would like very much to have everyone 

 now here, come and extend the invitation to any friend who 

 may be interested. 



To-day we have with us a man who knows the subject 

 of the fertilization of Apple Trees and various other agricul- 

 tural crops thoroughly, and as the fertilizer problem this 

 year is one of the most important ones which the farmers 

 are facing, we are very sure you will listen with great at- 

 tention to Dr. Lipman this afternoon, who will speak to you 

 on Fertilizers for the Orchard, and it gives me great pleas- 

 ure to introduce to you at this time Dr. J. G. Lipman, of 

 New Brunswick, N. J. (Applause). 



FERTILIZERS FOR THE ORCHARD 



Dr. J. G. Lipman, Director Experiment Station, 

 New Brunswick, N. J. 



There may be persons in this audience whose mental 

 attitude toward the subject that I am to discuss may be that 

 Di the man from a remote rural district who visited the Zo- 

 ological Garden and saw a giraffe for the first time. He 

 l(!oked at the nngainlv body of the animal, his feet and his 



