36 CITRUS TREES AND THEIR DISEASES 



tree to burn, let light and air in from the north and 

 east sides. 



Shot No. 6 When your foliage gets thick and 

 small, pointed and soft, this indicates lack of circula- 

 tion. Messick's Tree Tonic applied to the body will 

 save your tree. 



Shot No. 7 Be careful about the first irrigation 

 in the spring. Make your furrows farther apart, away 

 from the tree than you would later in the season, for 

 the reason that cold water, if too close to the tree, gives 

 a set-back at this time. As the weather gets warmer 

 make your ditches closer to the tree. 



Shot No. 8 An ounce of preventive is worth a 

 pound of cure. Keep your trees in a healthy condition 

 with perfect flow of sap and no disease need enter your 

 grove. Messick's Tree Tonic does this. Two applica- 

 tions a year produce more sugar, more juice, twenty 

 per cent more weight and a thin rind. If you want 

 this, say so. 



Shot No. 9 The writer is going to enclose in this 

 book some valuable formulas, not to be had elsewhere, 

 and only to be used by the purchaser of this book. 

 The purchaser must take his oath that he will use these 

 formulas upon his own grove and no other, nor will he 

 divulge any part of these formulas to any manufac- 

 turer of fertilizers, or any other person or persons than 

 his immediate family. It has taken the writer many 

 years to compound a fertilizer especially adapted to 

 citrus trees. This the grower makes upon his own 

 premises, buying his own raw material. 



Shot No. 10 If you have a head full of scientific 



