River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1900-10-11
Paris, July 18th, 1900.

ton 1T contains, ana Tor Wnlcn IL is mere
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
tographic reproduction that has ever been
made. only yesterday a Gommlttee rep
ISOLATION of France. to the number OF nj
teen, visited the office. They were IN
charge of their President, who is the
largest individual fruit grower in the
Republic. They came here to get an illus
tration of the Industrial and climatic con-
ditions under which our fruit Is grown.
acter of our climate, and by pictures ana
illustrations showed them that we had
full crop every year; thai our danger ger was
had we missed two crops in succession
from any cause. You will scarcely I'M
derstand the intense interest OF TINS m
tervfew until it is explained that this
Fruit-Growing Association practices frult
culture in two ways, wall-culture ana
cultivating under glass q forego fIe .I en-
desfgnations). The outdoor cultivation OF
fruit in France is extra hazardous ana IS
fast being superseded by the artificial
means of wall and glass.
The gentlemen who were mere yester-
day explained that the most prontaole
cultivation was that wherein all the rae
tors of success were in the hands OF the
cultfvator l have used this argument
many times for the promotion OF the poIlcy
Of irrigation. l 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 1t 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.
lions under which fruit was grown IN
California, 1t became apparent both TO my
self and my auditors, that the natural
f1l 10 arc 9 No
feet for the production of fruit as 1t Is
possible to be- 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 and observation
here. California is hereafter TO be the
orchard of the world, for reasons which
will be more easily made apparent in a
personal interview.
The. reason for the foregoing narration
1 will now present: We had exhausted
the interest OF the exhibit in showing the
fruits. the pineapples,, the dates, the
prunss, the peaches, the, pears, the APP
pies, the vegetables in all their varieties,
etc
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
Drama of the great tree grove. | have
never heard more genuine expressions of
surprise and admiration. The President
of the Association, a man of fine mentality
and dignity of character, said, through the
the most beautiful presentation of for
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 / saw IN Ger
many was less than twenty-four inches
In diameter. and not TO exceed seventy five
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 one of our greatest forests
by the best representation which can be
placed upon paper. You can have no
ade0uate conception of how il broadened
and dignified and ennobled our State. We
had shown them panorama pictures, pic
t1Ires Of prune orchards in bloom. pic
lures OF orchards. one of which is a most
marvellous presentation, the panorama
itself being six feet by fourteen inches
high ara representing five hundred acres
~ rraIne orchard. We had shown them
tyventy-one square miles in one panorama
~ q fruft orchard in Naca Valley. We had
shown them large fruits and large veg
etabies and all these things had appealed
N 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 and confirmation