Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-05

pomegGan orange and lemon, inter
spersed with loTdly roses; pear, apple
and other northern fruit trees; wild olive
and c8rOb trees; evergreens, oaks and
cedars as astonishing in girth and height
as the tremendous redwoods of CalifOr-
MIA and Washington; and, at last, set
like beads Of emerald against the white
canoes Of mountain SHOWS, vast and un-
troddeu forests of noble pine.
Traflicsble and always profitable pro-
ducts of the soil, but twenty-five hours
distance by steamer from European en-
trepots, are cultivable in Algeria in an
equal proportion and variety. As Cuba
and Florida are now in a degree, and in
time will become comprehensively the
truck gardens of American cities, so
Algeria Is already largely, and will
eventually become, like the little Sicily
islands of Cornwall to London, the sup
ply garden of Europe. Algiers is but
twenty-five hours distance from CadiZ
Barcelona, Marseilles, Rome and Venice,
forty eight hours from Madrid and Paris
and but eighty hours-the same time as
Jacksonville, Fla, is from New York
ard Chicago-from Vienna, Berlin
and London. Any morning you
may enter the market in the
Place de Ia Tyre or in Place de Char
tres, in AlgIers, and the exhibition of
eggs, potatoes, peas, beans, asparagus,
mushrooms, artichokes, cauliftower, let
tuce and all known northern and tropI-
cal vegetables; roses and branches of
buds, blooms and blossoms, such as all
Cuba cannot surpass; and apples,
plums, pears, cherries, dates, figs,
bananas, tamarinds, pomegranates,
melons and every known delicious fruit
of every land aud cline, Is something
your eyes can never elsewhere behold.
And vet all this Is but hint of what
another quarter century Of French hus-
bsndry in Algiers will be able to disclose.
In general, fruits, cereals and other
agricultural products for necessary con-
sumption and profitable export are
vastly more varied in number, and av-
erage
HIGHER GRADE OF EXCELLENCE
and perfection than in any other known
land. In ancient times the Barbary
states we're an overfiowing granary for
old Romel For more than a thousand
years Algerian soil has rested fallow /,
only scratched and prodded here and
there BY the primitive pillow of the crook
ed oliye-tree root. To-day every acre of
AlgerIa's $50 900 square miles is stored
with the riches of these thousand years
Of refrigeration and strength. France f,
then, has found what is practically q
new America twenty live hours from
home wherein she may remove the over
plus ptwer of her splendid industrial &C
tivities; with the added advantage of a
soil AMI olime capable of incalculable di-
versifitd employment. Even the date,
that precious almost mama OF the
Arab, the feet of whose tree are IN the
water and its branches in the flames, of
heaven, - is Transforming the northern
edge Ct Sahara into a garden, through
Frenn irrigation. Two crops OF pota-
toes are annually yielded. Beet root for
sugar manufacture is already success
fully cultivated. The fig is everywhere,
forms an immense food supply when
fresh, is exported for spirits distillation,
and no American need be told OF Its uni
versal foreign consumption when cured.
Nearly all the guava jellies, which
come by way of France, are
made from the Algerian fruit.
Algerian bananas and oranges of the