Show fruit orchard demands ample nitrogen supply speaking recently before the quebec horticultural society in montreal prof J H gourley Gou chief horticulturist of the ohio experiment station called attention to the striking demand that orchards bards make tor for nitrogen particularly sod or mulched orchards in discussing practical fertilizer practices based on ohio conditions professor gourlay said our pral to ito apply approximately a quarter of a pound of nitrate of soda for each year of a trees age so that a tour four year old tree receives one pound and a twenty year old tree five pounds this Is broadcast or sown gown beneath the outer branches lie he called attention to orchard experiments peri ments in which complete fertilizers tili are used in comparison with nitrogen only the evidence in favor of the former he said Is so meager and unconvincing in most cases as to have led horticulturists generally to confine their recommendations to nitrogen beneath the trees and to phosphorus between the tree rows for the benefit of the gross or cover crop As regards quality professor gourley mentioned experiments in progress which show that fruit from trees highly fertilized with vath nitrate of soda has kept as will well as that from trees receiving normal treatment |