Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-07-24
Utah FRUIT GROWING.
A Hasty Glance Over Centerville
Fruit Farms.


There are many beautiful spots in
Salt Lake Valley, but in no place
has nature spread her mantle Of
green with more lavish hand than
between Salt Lake City and Farm
ington more especially in and
about Centervillc, along the line Of
the salt Lake and Ogden railway,
eleven miles out from this city.
The attractions Of this section are
so great that it was deemed essen
tial to the general interest of this
edition to devote some space to a
description OF a farming and fruit
growing neighborhood so prolific.
Taking into consideration that the
price Of land ranges from $500 to
5000 per acre, one Of the most i'm
portant enterprises in this section is
the Davis County Nurseries, To-
Gated i'll the very midst of this
vast fruit-growing region. On every
hand as far as the eye can reach
along the levels of the valley, are to
be seen thousands and thousands of
fruit trees, many of them at this
time laden with bright, luscious fruit,
while other varieties are still in
vigorous growth.
As before mentioned the Davis
County Nurseries are located in the
very heart Of this vast fruit orchard,
and it is largely due to this fact that
this district has become famous for
its superior quantity and quality of
fruits, because Of the elegant stock
that has been supplied from the
nurseries to the farmers in the
vicinity The nurseries are among
the largest and most successful in
the State. There are three great
essentials to the perfect growth of
nursery stock. viz; Soil, climate
and water. This combination cou-
pied with expert knowledge OF the
business are the qualifications that
can produce only the best results.
The Smith Bros, headed by Mr..
Charley Smith, in charge of this
great industry, have grown up, so to
speak, in fruit tree nursery, and
are well qualified to look after such
a gigantic enterprise. Their system
of propaeating and growing is SIM
ply pertect-it would seem that
nothing was left to be desired, To
the unnitiated the system in all its
details is truly marvellous. 1t is i'm
possible in an article of this kind to
explain all the various details, but
somewhat OF an insight into the mo-
dus operandi may be given without
l waste of too much space. In the
commencement all seedlings are i'm
ported from France, where they are
grown from the seed until about eight
Jr ten inches in height. When
eady for shipment they are put in
,ales and sent to the nurseries here,
where they are planted in trenches,
previously prepared, and the roots
covered. Here they are allowed to
gain a good growth, when what is
known as the budding process is
gone through with. An incision
IS made in the seeding about one
and a half or two inches from the
ground and bud from a home
grown fruit bearing tree is inserted
in the incision. This bud at once
/ l,nits and rapid growth follows.
After the budding process is through
with the seeding above the budding
point is cut off and the result is a
clean, straight, beautiful tree, which
in one and two years after budding
is ready for delivery. There are
now in growth at this nursery about
| 500, 900 trees, consisting of apples,
pears, plums, prunes, peach, cherry,
apricot, nectarine, etc, ofthe various
varieties, that will be ready for de-
livery next spring, and it must be
truly said that never was finer lot
grown in any state in the Union.
They are all tall, straight and abso-
lutely of even growth and uniform
proportions,
Everything on the farm is system
atized and run on the strictest bust
ness principles. So thorough going
is the system in vogue that an error
in filling an order is next to an inn
possibility.
There are many other attractions
about the nursery farm other than
the fruit tree features. There arc
the shade trees, ornamental trees
and shrubs, also the small fruits de.
partment-all OF these come in for q