Arizona republican., 1898-12-20

world, which certainly would be slow
 and expensive process. I contend that the importation of plants from Egypt,
 Algeria or any other eastern country is not only not necessary, but even may
 prove worthless here. In the date
 growing countries of the east each To- cality grows the particular variety of
 date that has been found best suited to iGhat particular place. It is possible
 that none of those varieties would find
 suitable conditions here and would be
 failures.
 "Take the case of the European al-
 monds introduced into California.
 None of them would produce a suf-
 ficient crop 70 pay expenses, whereas
 the California seedlings are a success.
 Take another illustration. The Rhode
 Island Greening is an apple par excel
 fence throughout New England, both
 as to quality and quantity. Suppose
 before apple growing was an estab- lished fact in Illinois and Missouri, some farmer at great expense should have hauled a wagon load O. Greening
 trees from New England and planted
 them in Missouri. They would not have borne enough fruit to pay for cui- tivation. He would have apparently proven that apple growing there was d planting Greening trees his neighbors planted some apple seeds. They four ished and gave a heavy crop of fruit, proving that for the growing of the varieties adapted to the locality, Hi nois and Missouri were well adapted. Some of the seedlings 'JluS grown were better than others, and from the best such well known varieties as the Ben Davis, Jonathan, Winesap, etc, were ropagated.
 Right here some one says that the soil and climate Of the middle and eastern states is so nearly alike, any one with good common sense would know that if apples grew in one place they would in the other. Even so And say that if the date palm houriShes in the valley of the Nile in Egypt it will flourish in the Salt River valley, the Nile of America In fact, they are fourishing lhere, and as with the ap- pies in Missouri, from the seedlings grown here we will select the best to propagate from. They will be ac- and be as good, nay, better, han any we can procure from Turk or Moor. Those first to go into the busi ness may hope to reap the honor and reward for the development Of leading varieties.
 "The orange industry was introduced and established in California with seed ling oranges, and I venture to say there was more profit in an acre of hose early seeding growers than there is in an acre of the choicest budded fruit now Seeding dates are no stranger ito Arizona. They spring up from seeds thrown in the gutters in Phoenix, in our dCor yards and by the roadside and ditches. Wherever a date seed is thrown and it finds sufficient moisture. it germinatessand a date 1 palm is started Many such seedlings 1 ire bearing in the valley. I have eaten 1 ,ruit from a great many of them. They 1 III produce luscious fruit, and so far as can see the only choice to be made l them would be in the thrift 1 ness or productiveness of the tree. l The fresh fruit is so superior to the .tale candied dried date of commerce Tou would scarcely recognize them as he same. It is in the unGried stage hat they are relished most in the ast and that is the way they should be marketed. I am no prophet if the first