Arizona republican., 1890-05-19
VN--II~11. F''4"-7-' '>''s' MARICOPA ORANGES. The Orchards of the Val-
 ley Visited.
Remarkable Progress Made In
 a Very Few Years.
Sights That should Be Seen By Every Resident and shown
 To Every Visitor.

1 have been out among the orange groYes this week and will gladly report my observations for the benefit of TIE REPUBLICAN. see you squint one eye a. the words "orange groves," as did enc old fruit grower from Florida last winter when I showed him wood cut in one of our advertising pamphlets rep resenting an Arizona vineyard. The Florida man said: That looks we'll on paper, but you can't show me the vineyard, can you?" said that could and sent him out to the Adams X Logan vineyard of eighty acres. He returned perfectly convinced. Now we actually have an orange grove and it beats any picture that scribe or artist can ever make, and I advise every resident in this valley and every new conner to see it at once. refer to the one at the Falls having one years growth. We have others also that have been put out this year and they are doing well, aye beauti- fully, for l have never seen anything more thrifty in California-and during the past two years have visited many orchards, old and young, in the vicinity of San Bernardino, Riverside, Pomona, Pasadena, Los Angeles, Santa Anna and San Diego.
 At Mir. Fulwiler's orchard find that they have irrigated with too much = water in too large trenches causing a washing away of soil that not only in- ereases labor,but deteriorates the soil greatly. The surface loam should be carefully preserved. The main or sur face ditch of an orchard should be run on the most level side of the tract and provided with boxes or small gates so that the flow of water could be regu- lated to suit the fall of the land along the rows. Then, by making small fur rows or drills with a cultiyator, the water can be regulated to flow along on each..sidc of the row, so as not to wash away the soil.
 WARD AND LOvINs ORCHARD.
 I spent some time at the twenty acre orchard of Messrs. Ward and Lovin, the Florida nurserymen, who have fine stand of trees. These gentlemen in- form me that their trees, though trans ported hundred of miles, are making a finer growth than anything ever tried in Florida. They are having some trouble with ants that eat away the young tender sprouts. These ants should be treated in their nests or holes to solution of cyanide of potassium and water, but be sure not to get it upon your hands, as it is poisonous. At the base of the tree they should be with met a tarred rope, string or rag, which, think will keep them away.
 W. J. Murphy's forty acre tract ad- joining the Crosscut avenue is in superb condition. Ten acres of Washington navels four feet high, planted on the septuple system twenty feet apart, have already made a fine growth and eight acres of smaller trees are all out in full leaf. On MT. Murphy's tract Is also a large orchard of deciduous trees and vines, and great variety of ornamental shrubs and trees and flowers in the nursery. At ''Ingleside" we found the orange grove before mentioned sure enough. Of the fourteen hundred and eighty-five trees planted last year in April, there are growing fourteen hun dred and sixty; loss of less than per cent, which has of course been repaired this year. We can now boast of having smelled a genuine Arizona orange blOs- som, and can contemplate matrimony \ in Arizona with more pleasant anticipa- Ntions than ever before, for we can have our own orange blossoms. You know that in San Diego marriage is hardly legal without the orange blossom.
 The Scott orchards, under the super vision of Deacon Spencer, are getting thorough trimming and cultivating this year. There are twenty acres of decid- uous trees, forty acres of vines and twenty-five acres of oranges. Mir. , Spencer is correct in his ideas of severe pruning and thorough cultivation for deciduous trees, but thinks his greatest mistake was in having had barley sown on his fruit land. He finds it hard to exterminate this now and has started lcrops of weeds that make a great deal int work.
 KING AND CLAYsoN's.
 On our return we called at the new orchards and homes of Mir. A. J. King in the Orange Dale tract and MT. Geo. II. Clayson on the Crosscut. Their trees and vines are all growing and in few years they will have beautiful homes and profitable orchards. Mir. King, though uew conner, seems already to have become initiated into the new sys- tenn of fruit growing under the methods of irrigation and has made handsome showing in a very short space of time. He has quite an orchard of Riverside navels, and the remainder of his tract in choice varieties of vines and decidu- ous fruit.
 Mir. Clayson's place is all in deciduous fruit and vines and these have made remarkable growth, having been set out in good season. He has already found that 1t pays when putting out an orchard to begin in good season. We have had very pleasant and profitable trip and have acquired in our travels an excel. lent idea ot the capabilities of the Salt River Valley in the matter of fruit rais- ing-with some other ideas that will prove of immense value should we ever contemplate going into the business of fruit growing on our owp- account. Now, therefore, t the l.secsetasy 0f the FYYs lil0wHzy AssociAtions will call at sl4S tbe last nhapty on .Sage ebrush av4es v SSs NiiP jjoip yhis SDcisty, as itl wil@s tsf ertat deai and save us lots ofu Hattp know the mistakes our Dcig Rs3 raye made in planting their |. orch sdhN Eth all the information ob- Iain Rannl them it is possible to have the 4SiNah most profitable orchard in
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