Arizona republican., 1907-12-14

shelter from the sun or the frosts, for various varieties sf cacti. Some
 fruit and some ornamental -trees are { also in evidence. nearly all of them for ! one experiment or another. though the doctor is not running a nursery. eX- cept for cactus. He has plants there ! from all over Arizona. New Mexico, | California and Mexico and many eith-
 CT original or propogated from origin al plants that came from other cOnti- nerts. There are all the varieties of cacti common to this territory in [ abundance and there are many kinds that most people never heard of, much less ever saw. Some are pretty. some are ugly. some are novel. but all are interesting when accompanied by the doctors confidential gossip concerning their family history and characteris-
 ties.
 The term cactus orchard is not so inappropriate as was supposed when
 the humorous name was first applied. for nearly every variety has fruit of some sort and the fruit of some of them is not only palatable, but decid
 edly good. though it is not furnished
 in sufficient quantity to become an
 article of general diet. More of the fruit however is insipid or tasteless or
 bitter. In like manner each variety
 has flower that is interesting, some
 of them are rarely beautiful, and many
 are sufficiently pretty to attract at
 tention anywhere if they are met with.
 one variety or another is in bloom or
 fruit almost the year round. The most notable exhibits because the best
 known, are the century plant and the
 night blooming cereus. both of which are common in Arizona. the latter more
 uncommon than the former however.
 MT. KunZe has a great many of these and usually they are the first thing
 the visitor asks to see.
 The object of the cactus garden was
 not for the making of a show place,
 interesting though it be. but for a cac-
 tus nursery, where the-more common
 varieties could be kept easily at hand. and where the varieties that pr. Kunze
 has to send away for may be kept either temporarily until the shipping season in the spring or in many caces
 propogated. and all the time studied
 for their individual characteristics. In his collecting tours the doctor has wandered over all the western deserts and in Mexico and many of them he has traversed frequently.
 In the former article in this paper, a year or two ago. il was huniorously stated that Dr. Kunze had made q
 failure of raising pears nOtwithstand- ing his success as a cactus orChardist. That statement ranked in the breast of the scientist. He vowed at that
 time that he would show the newspap-
 CTS a thing or two about pears. He has
 done so. He now has pears for his
 table from July of one year to April 1st of the next, nine months in sue ceSsion every year. His most cherish ed variety is the P. Barry pear. l.
 was named after Patrick Barry. a not
 able New York nurseryman, now dead.
 The fruit was recently gathered from the trees and is still very hard. IL is of large size, and fine quality and when nicely wrapped in paper and laid away it does not become mellow and
 in prime table condition until the first of March. other popular varieties keep him supplied from July until the March ripening of his P. Barry fruit which averages thirteen or fourteen ounces to each pear. There are very few small and undeveloped pears on a