. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. ipi6 BETTER FRUIT Page ?? appearance, while the others were yel- lowish and sickly. So great was the difTerence in the color in this orchard that the fertilized plats could he seen from a great dis- tance. There was also a very marked difference in the attitude of the trees. The foliage and crop of the check-plat trees was so light that the branches stood up as in winter and were no harrier to people and teams passing beneath, while the branches of the fer- tilized trees were so weighted down with foliage and fruit that it was dilli- cult to get through, and a te
. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. ipi6 BETTER FRUIT Page ?? appearance, while the others were yel- lowish and sickly. So great was the difTerence in the color in this orchard that the fertilized plats could he seen from a great dis- tance. There was also a very marked difference in the attitude of the trees. The foliage and crop of the check-plat trees was so light that the branches stood up as in winter and were no harrier to people and teams passing beneath, while the branches of the fer- tilized trees were so weighted down with foliage and fruit that it was dilli- cult to get through, and a team could only be taken between the trees in a very few places. Clean cultivation was continued in this orchard in IfllJ, but clover and alfalfa was planted in 191.^ and irrigation water applied for the first time. The factor of irrigation has had but little apijarent influence upon the comparative results, as it was ap- plied uniformh to all the plats except No. o, which, by virtue of its shortei- duration, does not enter into this comparison. Plat five was fertilized at the same time as the others, March 13. Although the weather was cloudy and threaten- ing there was not sulhcient precipita- tion to cause the nitrate to be washed from the branches to the ground for a number of days after it was applied. The land about these trees was culti- vated in the spiing, after which it was left unstirred. It was irrigated once very lightly, one furrow to the row, and the watei' allowed to run but a short time. The vitality of these trees had been so far reduced by drouth and starvation that blossoms were not pro- duced in sulhcient (|uantity to permit a determination of the set of fruit being made. The comparative effects of the nitrate spray ajjplicd to the tree alone and to the tree and ground about it are very pronounced. Table 2 shows the comparative vigor of the check-plat trees, those having the aerial pai-ts treated with nitrate solution, the one Id the top and soil of which the
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