Mesa free press., 1893-09-21


healthy trees in the immediate vicinity
to which scale or any insect disease
has never been known. Every pos
sibility of confusion or mixing OF
varieties is guarded against, and
complete record of every particular
| in the work is kept daily, even to the
name of the man who set the bud or
graft and the day it was done. Stakes
with the name of each class and
variety, in large print, are set at the
end of each row so that stranger can.
| find any variety that he may desire to
examine. Every..branch ofthe business
is handled by experienced nurserymen
thus as uring planters of the exact
kind wanted and satisfaction is guar
anteea in every way. This admir-
able system, combined with long
experience has made the firm an en-
yiable reputation for fair dealing and
accuracy all over the world. and they
deserve it.
Driving short distance from the
budded nursery we came to their
table, raisin and shipping grape
nursery, which contains upwards OF
500, 600 fine vines, all of which will
be ready also for market this fall.
We then drove through their 400
acres of orchard, comprising all the
varieties of deciduous fruits. The trees
although but two years old represent
growth that resembles an old orch
ard, many Of them now reaching
height, Of fifteen feet, and what adds
to the appearance and beauty OF the
orchard every tree ola kind is SYM
metrical and uniform in shape and
height. No one can visit this place
and not enthuse over it unless he has
an eye of stone and a soul unappre-
ciative and dead.
One of the best features of the firms
system of perfect propagation is 30
acre experimental tract set aside and
independent of the general orchard
and vineyard for the purpose OF prov
ing varieties and testing merits before
general dissemination. In this tract
can be noticed 128 distinct varieties
of grape vines, each variety showing
very perceptible difference as to fol-
iage, rank, growth and puberty,
besides proportionate number of the
various deciduous fruit trees are here
cared for.
Leaving the home orchard and
vineyard we soon reached the firms
new nursery tract on the Rio Bonlto
colony can, .ilg's Ian Is. Here we
were shown 40 acres Seeding stock,
just ready for building, the hundreds
ofrows Of young tees showing such
uniformity Of growth and thrift
through the outire tract as to command
the admiration of the passer by-even
the most inexperienced. This nursery
contains over a million seedlings
growing in soil that cannot be ex-
celled, and nearly every young tree
will be budfled and made ready for
market next fall.
The Importance of this immense
nursery and orchard to this COM
munity, laying aside the fact that no
disease whatever, either scale, insect,
pest, blight or any other damaging
influence has never been known or
discovered although thoroughly in
spected by horticultural commission
ers by request of the proprietors time
and again, will bring customers from
far and near, and the time is not far
distant when this country will be
referred to as the center or heart OF
California's great fruit belt-the
nucleus of fruit propagation, progress
and development.-Biggs Argus.
Mr.. Frank NJ. Harmon, special
agent for Alexander and lannon's
Rio Bonito nurseries is now in the
valley taking orders and will remain
here until the tree season is over.
Any person desiring trees should call
or address him at Phoenix where he
has. his Office.