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FLORIDA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY 
In setting nursery trees by the thousands, 
we set row after row without the appli¬ 
cation of water, and those little trees have 
only a tap root, and hundreds of them 
live without the application of water. 
Then we experimented to see if the larger 
tree would not live with the same care. 
We have tried it for a number of years, 
and it will work. By way of experiment, 
I wish you would try a few of them. I 
have been setting out trees for other peo¬ 
ple as well as for myself. I have set a 
large number of trees and guarantee them 
to live, and the other fellow laughs be¬ 
cause we do not give them water. 
Of course, if the sand is dry, you have 
to put water in then, but otherwise you 
do not need to water them. 
Question 6. How to obtain relief 
from red bugs. 
Prof. Watson: I have had some ex¬ 
perience with red bugs; like all new¬ 
comers, but I am getting somewhat im¬ 
mune to them. Simply have patience with 
them. (Laughter). If you expect to be 
exposed to the red bugs, rub sulphur on 
the exposed parts. I obtained relief, 
after being bitten by bathing the affected 
parts in about a 4 or 6 per cent formalde¬ 
hyde solution. Alcohol is good. Alcohol 
or formaldehyde are good to relieve the 
pain, simply. 
Dr. Berger: I have had some experi¬ 
ence with them. I think it is rather im¬ 
portant to remember to use flowers of 
sulphur. I tried some flour of sulphur 
and it does not work so well. 
Question 7. Where can we get a pub¬ 
lication on lettuce culture? 
Mr. Rolfs: You will have to get that 
from the horticulture books. Mr. Ken¬ 
nedy, at Palatka, and Mr. Walden, at 
Miami, have both published articles on 
lettuce culture. Mr. Bateman has, also. 
Mr. Hume: There are three or four 
books published on vegetable growing in 
Florida. Mr. Bateman’s book, Mr. Ken¬ 
nedy’s and Mr. Walter Walden, of 
Miami. 
Question 8. What are the differences 
in the Valencia Late and Hart’s Late or 
Hart’s Tardiff orange? 
Mr. Rolfs: I think we ought to insist 
upon Mr. Hume answering that question. 
If he is not an authority, I think the rest 
of us would have to pass it up. 
Mr. Hume: I will say frankly that 
for the past fifteen years I have been 
hunting for the difference. I went back 
to several sources where I thought I could 
get the two things separated. A friend of 
mine said he knew in California where 
there were some trees of an absolutely 
genuine strain of what the Californians 
called Valencia Late. Shortly afterwards 
I received a package from him contain¬ 
ing 1500 buds. Then about two weeks 
after that, I got a letter from him in 
which he said he had been delving into 
the history of those Valencia Late orange 
buds he had sent me, and found that 
about fifteen or twenty years ago they 
came from Florida and were, no doubt, 
what the Floridians called Hart’s Late or 
Hart’s Tardiff. 
In my opinion, there is no difference 
between them. 
There is one thing you must always re¬ 
member about fruits. You may take any 
fruit, of exactly the same strain, carry 
trees of it to one region of the world, 
