The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1900-11-24

able for two reasons, first, as evidence
Of the great interest which is every
where manifested in that wonderful
State; also for the valuable infOrma-
ton it contains, and for which it is here
reproduced:
Paris, July 18th, 1900.
The panorama picture Of the Mariposa
Grove is admitted by all, including Pho
~tographers, to be the most wonderful pho-
Geographic reproduction that has eve been
made, Only yesterday a Committee rep
~Fesenting the greatest Frutt-GroWinB AS
ISOLATION Of France, to the number Of ht-
charge Of their President, Who is the
largest individual fruit grower in the
Republic. They came here TO get an a4lus'
tration Of the Industrial and climatic con-
ditions under which our fruit is grown.
/ explained to them fully the prolific char
aeter Of our climate, and by pictures ana
Illustrations showed them that we nad g
full crop every year; that our danger was
from OVer-bearing; that in no instance
had we missed two crops, In succession
derstand the intense interest Of this in
tcpViaw until IT B-eZplained that this
Fruit-Growing Association practices fruit
culture in two ways, wall-culture and
c~ulttvating under glass q forego French
designations), The outdoor cultivation OF
fruit in France is extTa-haZardous and Is
means of wall n glass.
The gentlemen who were here yesteF-
uay explained LAhE tnG AAuSk PIgAkanA9
cultivation was that wherein all the fac
tors Of success were in the n Of the
c~ultivator. I have used this argument
many times for the promotion Of the policy
Of irrigation. / have said that when the
moisture can be controlled, both with ref
erence to moisture n drainage civilized
culture will have been achieved; that at
tkat point only 1t becomes az art; but
where natural conditions are depended
upon and are not under the control OF
man. the cultivation has not risen to the
dignity OF an art. It's main factors are at
the hazard Of a
When I explained, however, the condi-
tions under which fruit was grown in
California, 1t became apparent both to my
self and my auditors, that the natural
conditions In California are as nearly per-
feet for the production of fruit as 1t is
possible to Sbe, and that at all events
there are economies with us which will
give us the fruit markets Of the world.
You may accept this conclusion as dem
onstrated by our exhibit n observation
here. California is hereafter to be the
orchard Of the world, for reasons which
will be more easily made apparent. in q
personal interview.
The reason for the foregoing narration
I will now present: We a exhausted
fruits, the pineappies, the dates, the
prunes, the peaches, the pears, the ap-
pies, the vegetables in all their varieties,
The day was extremely hot and the in.
Geryiew had become monotonous. I called
the company into an attitude ~ which
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Drama OF the great tree grove, I have
never heard more genuine expressions Of
surprise and admiration. The President
of the Association, a man Of hne mentality
and dignity Of character, said, through the
Interpreter to me, that the picture was
the most beautiful presentation OF a for
est he a ever seen and the forest was
the most beautiful Of any that had ever
been shown abroad, The forest as ex-
pressed in that picture is infinitely su-
periOr to any forestry expression possible
here. The largest pine tree I saw in Ger
many was less than tWenty-fOur inches
in diameter, me not to exceed seventy-hVo
or eighty feet high. After what we had
told them of the favoring conditions OF
climate and soil, we Introduced them into
the heart Of n of our greatest forests
by the best representation which can be
placed upon paper. You can have no
adequate conception Of how &c broadened
and dignihed and ennObled u State. We
had shown them panorama pictures, pic
lures Of prune orchards in bloom, pic
lures OF orchards, one of which Is q most
marvellous presentation the panorama
itself being six feet by fourteen inches
high, and representing I'VE hundred acres
of prune orchard. We had shown them
twenty-one square miles In one panorama
Of a fruit orchard IN Vaca Valley. Wehad
shown them large fruits and large veg
etables, and all these things had appealed
to them as exceptional. The panorama Of
the great forests Of California, including
the greatest trees that grow in the State,
| conferred upon the entire exhibit prOba-
bility n confirmation.