146 THE NEW HORTICULTURE. 



down to mowed sod when in bearing. The other quotation 

 is from a bulletin issued by Prof. H. N. Starnes, of the Geor- 

 gia Experiment Station seven years ago, which concludes as 

 follows : 



"Whether or not Stringfellow's methods ultimately become uni- 

 versally adopted, they can not, in view of the various successful tests 

 in which they have figured, be any longer criticised as visionary or 

 ridiculous, and so dismissed. The Stringfellow theories have now gone 

 beyond this point, and must be treated with the respect which their 

 grave importance to the fruit-growers demands." 



