Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1891-07-23
Aberdeen Herald.
AN EARTHLY PARADISE.
All Kinds of Fruits and Vegetables
Produced in a Profusion I'm
heard of Elsewhere.

No where has Nature been so lavish as
tfon OF our state embraced between the
Cascade mountains and the Pacific ocean,
nc locality can boast of advantages
superior to the Grays harbor country and
Chehalis county. The following extracts
FROM an article written for the state
BOARD OF trade, by State Horticultural
lily BUGGY, are facts, improbable as they
.nav seem to those who have never
visited this wonderful land or seen its
truly remarkable products:
Having stated that fruit and vegeta-
soles are produced in great abundance,
and the soil very productive, it is proper
here to show by reliable and authenti-
Gated statements OF orchardists and gar
ieners how abundantly the soil produces
in Washington. A sample potato grown
ny Isaac Cathcart, OF Snohomish county,
weighed 51s pounds and was Il}a inches
ioug and inches wide. A sample tur-
zip grown by Robert T. Flynn, of Kitsap
county, was SO inches in circumference
and weighed 20 pounds Strawberries
over inches in circumference are not at
all uncommon. From his crop Of 1891,
W II. Carter, of Montesano, picked one
gallon made up of seventv-nine berries.
THE largest was inches i'll circumference
and the smallest 4 inches. Fourteen OF
Nilem weighed pound. Mr.. Hoskinson,
IN his article on Western Washington,
mentions one yield OF forty-two bushels
from the one-eleventh part of an acre.
This has probably been repeated in
zMany instances. Mr.. Soren,on, OF
Maiden Bower bay, on Lake Washing
tsm, gives the cost of strawberries as ten
cents per gallon, of which four cents is
for picking and two cents for freighting
u the Seattle market He has sold his
product for an average of fifty cents per
gallon. Other small fruits produce in
like abundance, and with like profit TO
the grower. Frank r. Spinning, of Sum-
zier, from 70 acres in 1890 sold $50 tons
)
ST., 800 worth Of carrots from five acre
tract. 20 tons oil hops for $S,400, 80 tons
oa hay for 81 200, $3.50 worth OF oats and
81, 800 worth of garden truck. +. j. Kerr,
.of slaughter, raised 10 tons of potatoes,
q tons of carrots and two tons OF ruta-
hagss from two acres of ground. A.
Stewart, of Kent, OH three acres pro-
siuced "a tons OF potatoes, tons of ruta-
bagas and 5000 head Of cabbage, and a
large amount of common garden vege-
tables
'sThere are flowers upon The mountain
SIDE, over the praires and in the valleys
sAe woods are scented with hundreds OF
them, from the violet to the climbing
honeysuckle. On the foot hills of the
Dlyfn, ic range are found blooming in
their season, acres of wild rhododendron
Around every home are seen in profusion
flowers both cultivated and wild. Roses
dot the lawns, climb the porches, arbors
aud fences, and in the most luxuriant
growth and Of such size as to create SUI
prise with the eastern foriculturist.
There is scarcely bulb plant known to
nae sut does we'll; the lily, the tulip, the
raIcissus, the crocus and especially the
hy2einth thrive surprisingly. The val
feys in the western part of the state are
equal to Holland in the production of
hyacintls, and many fine bulbs are an
nnally produced; vet the production of
byaeinths for the market is Just in its
sRfancy- But there is great field for
the Industry here.
The state of Washington has many
gifts TO bestow npon those who seek a
slOesle within her borders, and the in
sllstrous she will reward with a home
surrounded with fields, orchards, gar
aasfas and grassy lawns, and her climate
offers long life to enjoy them"
Pa7asols in great variety in black and
ct3iOrs, silk or satin. for ladies' or children