Arizona republican., 1911-06-14
DAYS CONTRIBUTION
TO BOARD EXHIBITS
Among Them Were Green Roses,
Banner Alfalfa and Early
Plums.


day for gathering in rare and de-
slrable exhibits of valley products
OF many kinds. One of the most
novel specimens brought in was a
little bouquet of green" roses. the
gift of Dan =. Kelly Of 1913 East
jefferson street. The green rose
is surely a curiosity to most people
but it is genuine though il looks
quite different from the common var
ieties of roses. The leaves are very
similar in shape though they are
small, as the blossoms are also. the
flower and its stem suggesting that
the plant is much more delicate than
the common roses. The curious fea-
ture is the blossom, the petals of
which are narrow like those of a
dandelion or blade of grass. and
are perfectly green The blossom
looks more like a little tuft OF grass
than anything else. but it is so de-
cidedly different from the leaves Of
the plant that there is no gainsaying
that il is a perfect blossom. and a
grass green one at that. Mr.. Kelly
says he also has blue roses and black
roses but he has not yet brought his
eskimos
Another requirement of Yesterday
was the prize alfalfa plant of the
season. The board had one before
that it did a deal of talking about
but this one beats it i'm every way. Ii
is a single plant or root Of alfalfa that
sprung from a seed planted by r.
Bivin in an orchard two years ago.
The orchard was abandoned soon
after and the alfalfa was never wat
cred, except by natural rain fall This
plant stands seven feet above the
ground. is covered with foliage and
the stalks are so numerous they
form sheaf as big as a man can
reach around. It's worth looking at
George NJ. Smith brought in plum
exhibit from his Bide-a- wee Place.
with which he can safely challenge
the world 1t is a twig thirty inches
long, cut from a Gonzales plum tree,
and the plums which are still green.
are about the size of early apricots
The merit Of this exhibit is the num-
erousness of the fruit The only
way anybody could put more plums on
one stick of the same length. even if
they were artifically attached, would
be to use smaller plumS It was
hardly possible TO count them all but
q careful estimate placed the num-
Der on this thirty inch twig at $50
Half of them would necessarily have
to be shaken off in order to let the
rest of them mature for the ripened
fruit as shown by another specimen.
get just as much Of that plum branch
into glass jar as he can. Mr..
Smith says there are seven more
limbs on the same tree just as heavily
laden and as he has 100 trees of this
variety ii may be presumed that Mr..
Smith will not go hungry for plums
this year. The marvellous thing about
this variety of plums is the early
of the trees which begin
bearing at one year old.
Another exhibit which was brought
to the board few days ago but
which has never been mentioned be-
fore. is a basket of White Pearl po-
tatoes They were grown by w. ].
Morgan on the homestead Of d. II.
Lennox. on the Christy road west OF
the Aqua F'ria river. and without ir-
rigatiOn. The potatoes are of fine
appearance. smooth, light colored
and weigh over a pound each If
Mr.. Morgan can raise that sort of
potatoes every year. and without irri-
cation. his fortune is made. providing
he will do it,
Attention is called to a slab of
thOrnless cactus that has been kick
ing around the board of trade room
Tor months. Secretary WEIGH finally
nailed it up on one of the center coll
Imns in the exhibition room and u
began growing. II has now sent out
hree little shoots or infant slabs.
Zach about three inches long. that
lraw their nOurishment from the
stored vitality Of the mother slab.
This will eventually be exhausted but
here is a hollow place in the top
II the big slab. caused by the begin
ling of dry rot. Mr.. Welch. proposes
o convert the hollow into an artificial
stomach and feed the big slab with a
laily allowance of water. In this |
one hardly needs any kind
# soil to grow things in Air and |
Nat'I StchH ~ Dc an tiidt IL H'Scs-
airy for a great many things and |
when one has the combination of air |
nd water with the marvellous Salt |
liver valley soil he can raise anything |
rom a mustache to a twelve per cent |
mortgage.
In this Tooth epistle to the Phoeni
ians on the subject of exhibits. the |
Oard of trade also desires il men,
toned that il is anxious to secure
ONE pictures of milo maize and kaf
ir corn. i'm the field. in the shock or
n any other place where the pictures
nay have been taken.
RAILWAY TRAVEL IN JAPAN
THE railway journey from kioto to
-oLobap,a dasnita the fact that most