The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1869-05-26
oJR, CLIaATE-AND PRODUCTIONS


tween bright, balmy Spring days, come
to remind US during our growing sea
sous that we are elevated something
like a mile abpye the semi tropical
valleys of our sister State California.
There is much TO discourage fruit grow
ers from their attempts at arborculture
here and much to tsnpt such pleas
ant enterprises. The variations char
acterizng succeeding years are much
alike. Our Aprils are almost always
warm enough to cause fruit trees TO
blossom within four or Eve weeks of
such blooming in the Sacramento VAL
ley. These warm days, continuing for
three, aud sometimes four weeks, are
succeeded by sudden coming winds
which, while they parch the soil, often
bring showers inst in the nick of
time" as everybody says but these
timely rains, insreai of promoting the
quick springing growth that is needed,
are too commonly if not invariably sue
ceeded by winds WHICH q bake" the
top soil, and frosrs which destroy the
youug buds and fruit. These Dishaps
are of most discouraging uature and
compticate, The problem of How to
raaI-e our young orchards a Success.
The prime trouble, we should say is in
the tendency of the trees to bud early
before the dangerous season is fairly
past. This has prompted the idea OF
importing young trees from the
more northern States and The Canadas
trees that are not only hardy, but which,
BY being reared in frosty and variable
climates, would come here acclmated
and fitted TO withstand tie early warmth
of our SPring-not to bud too early, in
other words for il is not the cold of
our Winters that the fruit raiser has to
contend against, but the violent and
sudden changes of our Spring and it
seems evident thai tbs tender, fast Grow.
ing trees of California nurseries, are
not adapted to this altitude. Indeed,
VIC believe that it has come to be gen
orally conceded that the fault Of our
nursery making is that we have, hereto
fore, depended too much upon Califor
ME for our trees and it certainly is an
erroneous practice to plant our nurse
RES in the Spring instead of the Fall
Now that the Railroad is open it is to
be hoped that our farmers and nursery
men will make experiments with East
ern grown trees, easily obtained az they
can be, at comparatively low figures.
But unfavorable as such Spring as
the present is to the growth Of fruit
trees, the late rains are proEinga god
send to our grain raising farmers. Ne
vada wheat and barley and oats never
had such O glorious, general and timely |
irrigation before. On every band the
farmers are rejoicing over crop pros
poets. There ia much 20 encourage the |
belief that this is destined to become |
great grain producing State.
No State of the Union is better adap-
ted :haa. this to the culture of the |
snail fruits, such as strawberries, rasp |
berries, currants and the like. The
vines which bear these berries are
hardy and healthy, withstanding the
changes of Springtime and producing
very superior quality of fruit. They
are easily raised, costing little besides
the cultivation which is requisite to
ru-esss in all fruit raising. Apples that
have been raised here are found to be
If a very Superior quality, firm. juicy
and crisp. Indeed The quality of fruits
which reach US, in, their seasons from
the mountain orchards of California
illustrate. the fact that he cooler the
climate the fruit is raised in, the bet
ter i,s quality. When we do Gome.to be
apple and cherry rai.ers here in Neva
d., We shall produce better qualities OF
those delicious fruits than are 10 be
found in any of the Pacific States, as
some samples have proven. As to pota-
toes, the soil of Nevada pf0Caces the
verv heat in the world and one of