The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-10-21
SETTING A NEW ORCHARD.

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SETTING A NEW ORCHARD.
It is not easy to advise in regard to
the kinds of fruit to set in an orchard
for market without knowing something
| of the kind of soil and location, but we
can give you few hints that may be
useful to you, says the American Gull
| tivator. 1t is not always the best fruit
that is always the most popular, any
more than the best man, but unpopular
fruit and unpopular men are better for
nome use than for an open market. No
apples rank as high through the world
| as the Baldwins, although there are
| better apples, and the Greetings take
the next rank. Some Of the fall apples
are quite as profitable, as they yield as
well and sell for more money, but their
season is so short that the supply is
apt to exceed the demand even now.
The Wealthy apple is a very good ap-
pie and succeeds farther north than
| the Baldwin, but will not do well on
such a diversity of soil, or in so large
a range of climate, and like the Rus
sian apples, it Is not a ffrst-claSs fruit,
though better than none where better
| fruit fails to grow. The Northern Spy
| is a good apple, sells well and keeps
well, but it requires a long time to
come into full bearing, and even under
high cultivation is rather a shy bearer,
while on poor soil it does not grow or
bear at all, and in all cases it requires
to have the limbs kept very thin be-
cause OF its upright growth. Peck's
Pleasant has the same faults, and less
good qualities. The King is a name
not of the best as to keeping qualities,
but either of them selling well and
from fair to good bearers. OF the few
thousand other kinds in the market,
there are scarcely any that are ever
quoted by name in the market, either
at home or for export trade, excepting
a few of the fall varieties, and if they
were, the name unknown to fame"
would be a handicap which would
place them far below the better-known
kinds. Exception might be made to
some of the russets, but the small size
of the Golden RusSetS and the uncer-
tain bearing of the Roxbury Russell,
are bars to their profitable growth.
Much of the same thing may be seen
among pears. With the named varie-
ties numbering well into the hundreds,
or even into thousands, a dozen Yarie-
ties would be too many to attempt to
grow for market Bartlett, Seckel,
Beurre Bose and Duchess are about all
the Massachusetts, grower would dare
to recommend highly, though if the
Sheldon and Flemish Beauty are kept
from cracking by the carbonate of cop
per solution they may be added to the
list, and many would add Clapp's
Favorite as good fruit and good bear
er, being one of the most reliable, yet
unsuited to shipment or to long keeping
and others the Winter Nelis as win
ter pear and the Vicar as a cooking
pear. Both are good growers and good
bearers, but the demand for pears of
that quality is not large enough to
lead them to bring very high prices
when other pears can be got.
PROFITS OF PEAR GROWING.
AS has been previously stated the
trees are vigorous growers; fruitful and
bothered scarcely any by insects or
blight in this region.
Mr.. S. w. Brown, of Vancouver,
WASH, in an article to the Tacoma
Commerce, a short time since wrote:
IF there is a country on the face of
the globe where pears can be raised
more successfully than in this, 1 have
never heard of 1t. 1t is question in
my mind, which there is the most
money in, the Bartlett pear or the
Italian prune Were I going to plant
a large orchard for the purpose of rails
ing fruit to sell, I think / should divide
it chiefly between the Italian prune,
and the Bartlett pear. in about equal
parts"
Good Bartlett pears sell from 81 to
S1.50 per box go lbs): other varieties
vary according to quality and season.
In New York 1t is estimated that
young orchard five years from the time
of planting should produce from $50 to
$40 per acre, and when ten years old
the trees should produce to the amount
re OF
ceipts should be from $500 to $500. At
Olympia, Wash, trees four years old
have produced 80 pounds per tree, and
instances are related where trees in
this country have produced from 20 to
25 bushels each, and the fruit sold at
81 rs per bushel. These are exceptional
cases in favorable locations, but as a
rule large crops are produced each sea-
son, which if properly cared for will
bring profitable returns to the growers
Of the Pacific Northwest.-Northwes
ern Horticulturist,
VARIETIES OF PEARS TO PLANT.
Beginners should avoid too many
varieties. In an orchard of, say, five
hundred trees, there should not be less
than one hundred of each variety, and
he who follows this plan will have good
reason to be thankful, when his trees
come into bearing, provided he selected
those sorts adapted to his soil and the
wants of his customers. 1t is easier
and more profitable to find market for
one hundred boxes of one well-known
variety than to sell ten boxes each OF
ten varieties The six varieties, recon-
mended by the Washington Horticul-
tural Society, for general cultivation,
published in the Horticultural, is as
follows: For summer-Beurre Clifford
and Bartlett; for fall-Beurre d'AnJou,
Louise Bonnie dJersey and Dix; for
winter-Beurre Easter, Since then new
varieties have been brought forward
for cultivation, such as Idaho, Erwin
and Columbian which are now being
tried in the various districts OF this
region. But the Bartlett, Beurre DAN
lou, Bonnie dJersey and Beurre Easter
are sure bearers, prolific trees, thrifty,
fruit delicious, and always bringing a
good price on the market
AND PACKING PEARS.
This operation should be performed
with care but not until the seeds have
changed from a white to brown color,
or as soon as the fruit stems show signs
of .loosendng from the branch, no matter
how green they look. The rich color,
flavor, or aroma then develop to per-
lection, if they are properly packed or
kept in the dark. Pears will always
sell more readily and bring higher
prices with stems than without; this
should be remembered when gathering
them. AS fast as gathered from the
tree, the fruit should be carefully placed
in boxes or baskets by hand, being
careful not to bruise, as the pear will
then rot instead of ripening Most fruit
when ripened in a fruit room, which
should be kept cool if desired to keep
for some time, is then more beautiful
in color, has a finer aroma and is much
richer in flavor than if ripened on the