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come to a point where you want to treat the soil differently 

 for peaches and for apples. 



Another objection is one also frequently noted, that you 

 want to spray with different material or at different times, 

 and you have got to go back and forth from one tree to the 

 other, and if you simply make up your mind to do it at 

 different times, it means you have got to go over the orchard 

 twice, which adds to the expense. Those are my reasons for 

 not liking it, but I have seen it overcome in a number of 

 cases and have put in peaches, but I don't think it is the 

 best practice, and I entirely agree with the gentleman who 

 said it is best to put a tree in and when you get through 

 with it cut it out. 



Mr. Ikwin. Don't you consider the Mcintosh better than 

 the Baldwin to-day, for money ? 



Professor Sears. Well, I don't know. Yes, to a limited 

 extent I consider it better, but I am a great friend of the 

 old Baldwin, myself. It is an apple to tie up to week after 

 week and night after night. ^ The Baldwin is as good as 

 anything you get. 



Mr. Ikwin. But it doesn't bring the price. 



Professor Sb-ars. No, I know it doesn't bring the price. 

 I don't want to say anything against the Mcintosh, because 

 I think it is a fine apple. 



Mr. Packard. I would like to ask this as to fertilizers. 

 If the peach-tree fertilizer harms the apple trees next to 

 them, why couldn't the application of fertilizer be made lo- 

 cally? Some years ago I set out an orchard with peach 

 trees in between, and in due course the peach trees died. 

 The apple trees came right along as well as could be ex- 

 pected of any apple trees, and I lost nothing by it. 



Professor Sears. The difficulty is that the roots don't 

 stay where they belong ; the peach-tree roots go right among 

 the apple roots, and the apple-tree roots go right among the 

 peach-tree roots, and if you- have these trees 20 feet apart, 

 at the age when the fertilizer would be applied, undoubtedly 

 the apple roots would be trying to occupy all the soil, and 

 so would the peach roots, so that when you put any fertilizer 

 on it would be on both of them at the same time. 



