FLORIDA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
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the stored fertilizer and appropriating it. 
Another reason why we do not believe 
that the fertilizer in solution percolates 
through the rocks and is lost, is that our 
pine lands are lower than the glades, and 
there is an ever flowing underground 
current of water, forcing its way upward 
through the rock, which would have a 
tendency to force back to the surface 
what soluable matter that had penetrated 
the rock, making it available at all times. 
A well may be put down any where in 
the rocky lands from eight to ten feet 
deep which, can never be pumped dry, 
furnishing an unlimited amount of fresh, 
sweet, pure water. During the past three 
or four years I have put down a number 
of these wells and have not had a failure 
in any of them. The flow of water is as 
great today as it was the day they were 
put down. 
The thought came to me while Profes¬ 
sor Blair was talking, that in some way, 
down in our country nature had provided 
us a pocket in which to hold these fertil¬ 
izers. It is held largely in solution in 
these rocks and the roots go down and 
penetrate them, thus throughout the 
severest droughts we have, does not tend 
to yellow the trees, to dry up the foliage, 
or check the growth. I call attention to 
this hoping that the professor will some¬ 
time make an experiment to see whether 
a portion of our fertilizers are lost in 
percolating through the soil and rocks, or 
whether they are stored underneath the 
ground in the rocks and are ready for 
future use. 
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