The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1905-10-17

ditions, which is healthier for or
chard fruits as we'll as for the men
who grow them, than any Eastern dis
trict If American eve knew. The
largest apple orchards in the world
are growing in the Mississippi Valley
states. But the best apples for the
markets of the World have never
come, and will never come, from the
soils and the climates where these
wonderful orchards are growing.
There are other staple crops in which
these great states surpass the whole
earth. But in the g1eaters wisdom of
the years to come the men who plant
he orchards that are to supply the
markets of the globe, will seek not on
ly the best of soils, but the best of eli
mates in which to grow them. And
where will that be? Most certainly
not in the richest grain lands and
grass lands and cotton lands ever cul
tivated by man, but they will plant
them OF the broad high plains, ami
in the mountain valley where God
has winnowed all lie winds that blow
of every destructive germ that attacks
the health of fruits, and of man.
1t needs no argument to show that
in that happy day when all the fit
test" orchard men have survived the
wrecks and losses Of unsuitable con
ditions, they will finally find the best
soils under the hest climates in
which to grow the surest crops of the
most perfect fruits 10 meet the wants
of mankind. And these soils will mos
tly be found away up towards the top
of the American continent, of which
New Mexico is a most inviting por-
ton.
Doubtless the most important fruit
in the world is the apple. 1t is the
ate-climates. 1t is the necessary fruit
IF civilization. 1t adorns the rich
mans table and is the delight Of the
poor mans cottage. 1t is ~indispen-
sable to all wholesome modern living.
We cannot live and be healthy with
out apples. The laborer's lunch bas-
aet and the school boys dinner pail
would lose their chief charm if the
apple crop should fail. A loss of the
American ~applecroP for one year
would increase the mortuary records
of nations. If u apple orchards
should die the race would degenerate.
In financial Importance it leads all the
fruits of the world. The money value
of the American apple crop approx
mates. perhaps ~surpasses, a hundred
million OF dollars.
There are half as many apple or
chards as there are farms in America
And yet the fruit have yoked with
the apple, in my subject, can stand
proudly with it in its Importance to
all those lovers of luxury who delight
in the most exquisite fiavors. If the
man who long ago wrote the
notable lines about the strawberry
Doubtless God might have made a
fruit than the strawberry, bug
doubtless he never did," had been
in these days of Howells and
Hardys and Seckels and Superines
and Frederic Clapps. he would have
substituted the nobler fruit for the
fragrant berry The best fruit in the
world is the best peal in the world. |
The pear is the supreme triumph of
the genealogical artist. Ever since
lays of Pliny-and 1 suppose long
before-the ambition of the garden
worker has been to improve the pear
Our modern pears are the splendid
result Of nor than two thousand
years of scientific breeding. And the
is worthy of all these centuries
Of labor. We can now have pears-in
a country which the Lord made TO
grow pears in-for three quarters of
year. We can have them Of the
most delightful quality-absolutely IN
by any other fruit of the earth
from July until April. 1 say this is
possible. But it is not a common hap
oiness. Beginning with the Tyson aad
-unning the course of the most dele
Gus varieties through to the P. Barry
here are some two dozen kinds, rip
sning in succession-each Of which
'eems better than any of the others
that fills out nine months Of the
ear with an unbroken series of var
table delights. All this is possible
o the mar who tries and tries right.
f he lives in the right place I,
Are any of the tables of Kings set
n this way? 1 think so. But they