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FLORIDA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
I don’t know whether he meant that as a 
reflection on me or not, but I will read 
you the paper. 
(Reads Mr. Campbell’s paper.) 
Now, Mr. Campbell referred in his pa¬ 
per to a system of irrigation which I dis¬ 
cussed at the last meeting and possibly it 
may be interesting to some of you to 
know that since that time I have installed 
a plant similar to that I described at Day¬ 
tona. Perhaps some of you were not at 
that meeting, and I will tell you what the 
plant is like. 
At one time, I had a plant which re¬ 
quired the use of a hose, and I disliked 
that very much. I found the hose rotted 
out in about one year, and it took a num¬ 
ber of men to handle it, and altogether 
it was quite unsatisfactory. While we 
got water on the trees of course, and while 
the first cost was not heavy, the cost of 
putting the water on was heavy, and it 
was pretty hard work, and for those rea¬ 
sons it was quite a temptation to put off 
applying the water, hoping from day to 
day that it would rain and thus obviate 
the necessity for going to> all the expense 
and trouble until long after we should 
have begun to water. To avoid that, I 
thought I would like to have it automatic, 
So Mr. Campbell installed a plant for me 
at Winter Haven. I now have this sys¬ 
tem covering ten acres, but intend to put 
it over forty acres. 
The engine used for power is a 50 H. 
P. double cylinder Hagan; the pump is 
a two-stage Gould’s Centrifugal. The 
main is six inches. The laterals from this 
main are 2]/ 2 to ij 4 inches. The main 
line runs up to this ten acre lot and then 
the same size main runs right across it, 
dividing it into two five acre tracts. The 
trees are twenty-four feet apart. The 
whole tract now is set to nursery and the 
stand trees are the same size as the nurs¬ 
ery seedlings. I am letting them come 
right along with the nursery seedlings. 
In putting down the pipe, we put it about 
eighteen inches under ground. The pipe 
under the ground is protected with a 
preparation of asphaltum, and the parts 
that stand up outside of the ground are 
galvanized. 
There are six laterals leading from 
each side of the main. Each lateral takes 
care of two rows of trees, and where they 
lead off from the main there is a valve 
right at the main. Then a pipe is 
put in opposite and up to within a foot 
of each seedling or grove tree. Then the 
pipe goes up at right angles to just above 
the top of the tree. In other words a pipe 
is put over each tree. You see, the pipe 
is absolutely out of the way, and if it 
were not for the upright pipe over each 
tree you would not know there was an 
irrigating plant on the place. 
Now, when we want water, my man 
goes down and turns on as many of the 
laterals as the pump will supply. We 
have a four inch sewer pipe that goes 
over the valve so as to keep it covered 
and keep the dirt out. Then he goes on 
down and starts the pump. We figured 
that we would run an hour on each one 
of the six lines on each side of that five 
acres. We figured that if we start in the 
evening, by six o’clock in the morning we 
would have let each line run an hour. 
That would give me an inch and a half 
of water over the whole ten acres in ten 
hours. 
