FLORIDA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
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where every man is his own tree doctor, or there are tree doc- 
tors who can tell a man what his grove needs, then we will 
get the science of fertilization down to where it ought to be. 
It is a great mistake to assume that all lands should be fer¬ 
tilized alike. We have lands that will by no means bear so- 
called complete fertilizers. Our insects and our diseases can 
almost all of them be traced to the use of fertilizers. This is 
the side of the question I would like to have brought out in 
this Society. We are all making mistakes, but when the 
time comes that man can go out into his grove and say 
whether it needs potash or not, and when he knows that it 
needs potash, will he go and buy ammonia to get the potash ? 
I believe some would, especially if the fertilizer agent with 
the box of “two-fors” came along. 
J. E. Fuller —I think when we get home we will know 
what not to do. But some of us younger members would like 
to know what to do. We would like to hear of the successes 
as well as of the failures. I know we have not been doing the 
right thing. We want to know what is right. We would 
like to know the results you have obtained in the fertilization 
of pine lands. We would like a chapter of practical ex¬ 
perience. We came here to learn how to fertilize properly. 
A. H. Carey —I want to correct one idea that seems to pre¬ 
vail; that is, that all fertilizer dealers are frauds. It is also 
a supposition that there is a great profit made in fertilizers. 
I manufacture fertilizers and liye in Orlando and I will guar¬ 
antee to furnish any man with any grade of fertilizer that he 
may name it he will pay for the material laid down in Orlando 
the exact cost and will give me $5 per ton for my trouble. If 
a man buys a low grade of fertilizer and pays a high grade 
price for it, then he is undoubtedly paying $10 or $12 too 
much; but if a man buys a high grade fertilizer made from 
high grade material and pays high grade prices, then the 
dealer cannot get in $10 or $12 profit. 
A. G. Avery —Nearly everything so far that has been said 
has been on chemical fertilizers. Nothing has been said about 
cotton seed meal. I think cotton seed meal should rank 
among the best fertilizers we have and practical men I have 
talked with agree with me in this. I came here nine years 
ago and became interested in the cultivation of citrus fruit,, 
and from the best information 1 can get, cotton seed meal has 
given the best results. 
Mr. Phelps —The gentleman third last speaking told us 
about the seed being the reproductive factor of the orange. 
He should have gone further and told us what an orange is 
and the necessity of having a perfect bloom in order to have 
