The Worthington advance., 1900-10-12


Grove is admitted by all. including pho
tographers. to be the most wonderful ph0-
tographic reproduction that has ever been
resenting the greatest Fruit-Growing As
:seeiation: Of France: to- the number OF ff-
teen, visited the ONCE They were IN IN
largest Individual fruit grower, in the
tration Of the Industrial and, climatic con-
f9Ps Sais tu fsrt
iiiSstrations his at @ showed them that we had a
hat %
from any cause. You win scarcely un-
derstand the intense Interest OF this III: ia
Fruit-Growing Association practices fruit
culture in two. ways. wall-culture and
cultivating under glass Il torego French
fast being superseded by the artificial
means. Of wall and glass.
day explained that the most profitable
cultivation was that wherein all the fac.
tors of success were in the hands of the
many times Tor the promotion Of the policy
Of irrigation. have said that when the
moisture can be controlled, both with ref
erence to moisture and drainage. civilized
culture will have been achieved; that at
that point only It becomes an 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. Its main factors are at
the hazard of chance. - ~. =
+,1y1 When nd.r sxPairfSd PScS hGEeves the eondt \,
California, it became apparent both to my.
self and my auditors, that.ethe natural
conditions in California are as nearly per.
possible to be. and that at all events
there are. economies with us which will
give us the fruit markets Of the world.
onstrated BY our exhibit and observation
here. California is hereafter to be the
orchard OF the world for reasons which
wi more ,g1srvis Sissiy made apparent ina
The. reason for the foregoing narration
I will now present: we had exhausted
fruits the pineapple the SafS the
pies. the vegetables In all their varieties.
The day was extremely hot and the in
terview had become monotonous., called
the company into an. attitude In which
they could get good view Of the pam
never heard more genuine expressions of
Surprise and u'a:,d admiration., The President
9d fSst
est he had 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 SUI
perior to any forestry expression possible
here: The largest pine tree I saw in Ger
in diameter. and not to exceed seventy-ive
or eighty feet high. After what we had
told them Of the favoring conditions OF
climate and sol. we introduced them into
by the best representation which can be
PLACED upon paper 9u can haxs NC
and dignified and ennobled our State. We
had shown them panorama pictures, pic
lures of prune orchards in bloom, pic
lures Of orchards: one OF which is most
itself being six feet by fourteen inches
high. and representing five hundred acres
of prune orchard. We had shown them
twenty-one square miles in one panorama
Of a fruit orchard in Vaca Valley. We had
shown them large fruits sands large veg
.etables. and al. these things had appealed
the great3 forests of Cali lifornla. inciilding
the sgreatest trees that gTowsin theIS State,
;conferred upon the entire exhibit proba.
buity and c0nfirna lion.