. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. Fi' 111 h piiine free four years old from planting Twu hundred and flfly pounds green fruit. The lack of spread of all trees is due to their being drawn together by rope, to prevent breaking down on account of the heavy crop. From $400 to |500 was paid out for twine for this purpose, and likely 30,000 to 40,000 feet of lumber used. BETTER FRUIT tcrcsting to watch this development, which we are conlidenl from close observation now extends over forty feet from the trees bearing them, it is practically impossible to overestimate the vitalizing elliciency of our root
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. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. Fi' 111 h piiine free four years old from planting Twu hundred and flfly pounds green fruit. The lack of spread of all trees is due to their being drawn together by rope, to prevent breaking down on account of the heavy crop. From $400 to |500 was paid out for twine for this purpose, and likely 30, 000 to 40, 000 feet of lumber used. BETTER FRUIT tcrcsting to watch this development, which we are conlidenl from close observation now extends over forty feet from the trees bearing them, it is practically impossible to overestimate the vitalizing elliciency of our rooting system, backed up by soil bacteria. The manifestation of it is clearly deluied in the appearance of the trees, uniform growth, deep green luxuriant foliage and remarkable branch development. Instances have been noted where the new branch growth has been as great as an inch a day for months at a time. From a painstaking estimate which may be considered fairly accurate, we found the branch growth of the tree in one season to total more than 2, 5UU lineal feet. Using the same care in determining the leaf area of the tree's foliage it was found to contain (both sides of the leaves) some 6, 0UU square feet of surface exposed to the air. 11 takes time to oCserve and appreciate fully the dynamic energizing force developed by this root and foliage sys- tem. It will be interesting to note in this connection that our trees have been grown without artiticial irrigation, their sole dependence for moisture being upon the winter rains. It is evident that the great problem is that of supplying nutritious fruit-tree food, that is lood which contains all of the proximate elements of the tree body, in the proportions to supply the process of growth, repair and fruitage. Food to be nutritious must be digestible, that is soluble in the fluids of the tree s alimentary canal. 1 am convinced that it is the Divine plan that this food has to be prepared by the soil bacteria before it can be assimilat