56 STATE POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



Piaisted of Gardiner, one of the most successful orchardists in 

 Maine. People who knew how he succeeded went to him to find 

 out his formula for fertilizing apple trees, and he gave them 

 one — "Anything is a damned sight better than nothing." Most 

 of them get the nothing. 



COMMERCIAL ORCHARDING IN THE UNITED 



STATES. 



H. P. Gould, Agricultural Department, Washington. 



There is so much that I would like to say and might say in 

 connection with the orchard conditions and what is being done 

 in orchard sections outside of the State that I don't know just 

 where to begin, and I probably won't know just where to leave 

 off after I get started. The best thing that I can do, perhaps, 

 will be to try to tell you something about two or three of the 

 important orchard sections of the country with which I am some- 

 what familiar from personal observation. 



THE OZARK REGION. 



The first section I want to mention is the Ozark region of 

 Missouri and Arkansas. During the past few years there have 

 been remarkable developments along pomological lines in the 

 growing of apples and peaches. Probably there is no section in 

 the country that has been talked about and written about more in 

 the horticultural journals than this one has. You will like to 

 know, perhaps, something about the general conditions there. 

 You would hardly realize that you were in a mountainous terri- 

 tory so far as the general conformation of the land is concerned, 

 except in comparatively few places. It is more in the nature of 

 a high table land, ranging in elevation from one thousand feet 

 up to fifteen or sixteen hvmdred and in a few places two thous- 

 and feet, with comparatively little evidence of actual mountains, 

 although in some portions the surface is broken up into decided 

 mountains extending in elevation quite a little above the general 

 level. And this is what has been spoken of so commonly in 



