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Question, " What is recommended as a fertilizer for pear orchards? For 

 plum, orchards ? For cherry orchards V 



Mr. Motheral: Those may seem to be unimportant questions, but 

 they are not. If we continue to constantly take from our orchards and 

 put nothing back we will soon have to begin to fertilize, as they do in 

 the old country. The ordinary fertilizer is expensive. I have been try- 

 ing an experiment with the Southern pea vine. We grow a large crop 

 of vines and then turn them under while they are green. It is the best 

 and cheapest fertilizer that I know anything about. 



Mr. Lelong: I would like to state for the benefit of the convention, 

 that the State Board of Horticulture printed a bulletin giving the result 

 of experiments with different species of fertilizers. That bulletin can 

 be had by addressing a letter to the office in San Francisco. 



Mr. Motheral: I am asked where the seed of the Southern pea vine 

 can be procured. You can get them in San Francisco. There is a pea 

 grown in the northern part of California that is cultivated for the pea 

 itself. If you wish to grow that you can get a crop of peas and it will 

 fatten your hogs in September, and you can turn it under and you have 

 a good fertilizer besides. 



Mr. Block: If you find that your land is short of potash, you must 

 fertilize with potash. In order to act intelligently in regard to fertili- 

 zation, you should have your soil analyzed, and find out what elements 

 are missing. It is no use to spend money buying phosphates if you 

 require potash, and it is no use to buy potash if you require nitrogen. 



THE NEXT CONVENTION. 



On motion of Mr. Walton, the matter of locating the meeting of the 

 next State Horticultural Convention was taken up. 

 Mr. Righter put in nomination San Jose. 

 Mr. Kimball put in nomination San Diego. 

 Mr. Black nominated Santa Rosa. 

 Mr. Scott nominated San Francisco. 



Vote being had on the sense of the convention, to be considered in 

 the form of a request to the State Board of Horticulture, the result was 

 announced as follows: 42 votes for San Diego, 9 for Santa Rosa, 1 for 

 San Francisco, and 14 for San Jose. 



Mr. Kimball made a few graceful remarks, assuring the convention 

 of a warm welcome and pleasant time in case San Diego should be 

 selected as the place of meeting by the State Board of Horticulture. 



THE QUESTION BOX— (RESUMED). 



Question, " Is it the judgment of the convention that the putting on of 

 expedited ventilator fruit trains to run through to Chicago in five days is 

 all that is necessary to be done in the way of transportation to make the 

 growing and shipping of green fruit to the Eastern markets profitable to 

 the producer? " 



Mr. Block: I, for one, would say no. Other things are necessary- 

 And I will make a motion that it is the sense of this convention to 



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