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plant and care for trees after planted. I 
will close this paper by mentioning a few 
essentials of success. 
First never buy trees grown outside of 
Florida. We have several nurserymen 
who make it their business to find out and 
grow varieties especially adapted to Flor¬ 
ida. They are as intelligent and as hon¬ 
est as any nurserymen in the world and 
will give you free of charge any infor¬ 
mation you may desire. If you are not 
well posted yourself or know a local 
agent who is, the best way to get* trees 
that will succeed, in your special locality, 
is to write to some of our nurserymen 
in the State and tell them to send you 
the varieties you need of any fruit you 
may want. Second: Always cut back 
lateral roots to one to three inches long 
according to size of tree, and cut back 
the top to one to three feet according to 
the size of the tree before planting. Third, 
keep clean either by cultivation or mulch¬ 
ing. Fourth, fertilize heavily using com¬ 
mercial fertilizer always except on pe¬ 
can trees, use about two pounds the first 
year—i pound in February and one 
pound in June for each tree. Five pounds 
the second year and from five to fifteen 
pounds every year thereafter. I regret 
that the subject of this paper covers so 
much ground that it cannot be specific 
enough to be of as much value to the 
grower as it should be. 
I regret also that so little attention has 
been given deciduous fruits by the State 
Horticultural Society, not only this year, 
but for the past several years. The So¬ 
ciety has become largely a citrus grow¬ 
er’s association rather than a Horticul¬ 
tural Society. I do not blame the citrus 
growers for this, only so far as the fram¬ 
ers of the program for the annual meet¬ 
ings may be dominated by citrus grow¬ 
ers, and thus give preference to the cit¬ 
rus industry and thus neglect to develop 
the vegetable and deciduous fruit inter¬ 
ests which, important as the citrus indus¬ 
try is, are together more important to the 
proper and well balanced progress of the 
horticultural interests of the State. I 
suggest, therefore, that these interests be 
given at least the place their importance 
deserves on our next program and that 
one man be added to the committee on 
deciduous fruits and one to the commit¬ 
tee on vegetables whose business it shall 
be to give the society the best possible 
statistics on these branches of horticul¬ 
ture at our next annual meeting. 
