Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1909-03-23
Horticultural Notes
Loads of Fruit.
BY Frank Sinlol,s


One of the most pleasing sights tt
the eye of a horticulturist is to SCI
the branches of fruit tree proppeG
up to keep the branches from break
ing with their load of fruit. What
will give him greater pride than tt
be the owner of that tree, especially
if it is growing OF North Dakots
soil? He bases his pride on the fact
that he has accomplished what most
people have failed to do.
Great feats in themselves would
be practically worthless as far as the
pride of accomplishing them is con-
cerned, If it was not for the simple
that they express superior manhood
and womanhood, that call forth the
love and esteem of the. opposite sex.
AS the cause of this particular
trees being so loaded with fruit, and
you will find the answer is some lit
tie part of mans a bility to assist
nature. Travel over the country and
you will find fruit trees propped up
to sustain their load of fruit in ev-
cry conceivable locality, condition
and environment. When you ask
each owner how he caused it to load
itself with fruit, each one will give
you different cause. So when you
sum them all up, you will find that
the northern, eastern southern and
western slopes have their votaries.
They will be found growing on the
highest hills and in the lowest val
leys. They will be planted on level
ground, on high ridges and in deep
bitches. They will be cultivated deep
and shallow. They will be found un-
der irrigation and without irriga-
ton. They will be found without
pruning and under various systems
of pruning. They will be found at
all seasons of the year. Some will
be trained tall and other close to
the ground. They will represent a
great many kinds and varieties. They
will be found growing under strictly
clean cultivation, and among dense
weeds, and seeded down to many diff
ferent kinds of grasses.
The would-be fruit man who has
passed over the country and seen all
these fruitful trees, will decide he
has but to plant a fruit tree and
gather the fruit. AS the tree will
surely meet with one of the condi-
lions that some one of the horticul-
turists has pointed out to him as
the ideal cause of his tree being so
loaded with fruit this year; but if
the would-be fruit grower was a
| wide-awake, intelligent, scientific
man, he would instantly see that
right alongside of the fruitful tree
in every instance there will be bar
rem trees growing under the identical
conditions set forth by some other
successful grower as the very reason
for his tree being loaded with fruit
He will quickly decide that there is
| some fundamental cause for trees
to load themselves with fruit; which.
for the sake of explaining, we will
compare 1t to the body of a tree.
That all the above causes are its
branches and twigs, and all assisting
in producing its foad of fruit.
What is the fundamental cause of
the tree loading itself to break with
fruit?
The greatest of sciences, chemis-
try, will tell you all you want to
know. Under the law of chemistry
all nature is constantly creating,
building up. When it has built and
completed it's object, be it mineral,
vegetable or animal life, it prompt
ly, by another chemical law, pro-
ceeds to decompose, destroy and
compare the elements composing II
for reincarnation in another created
object. In the vegetable and animal
kingdoms, before they decay, they
produce their seed to reproduce and
propagate their species. After the
seed has been produced and planted,
their mission is complete, there is no
more for them to do. Activity is
life, inactivity is decay and death. ).
But for the extremes of heat and
cold, want of food and wear, vege-
label and animal life would continue
to grow and develope indefinitely If
they were prevented from growing
seed. Extremes of heat and cold
may cut down vegetable and animal
life at any stage of growth. i
The nations of the earth are try
ing to establish a peace conference.
They might as we'll try to stop the
wind blowing; they are only breed
ing fiercer and greater wars. War
and destruction is one of the two
great and only laws of nature Fierce