Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1914-12-13
5000 Trees mzIsfIela

old. while others are from "a to 100
feet high.
Around the large fields making up
the plantation are rows Of Lombardy
poplars 100 feet high. These are the
fences OF the estate, and they make
walls OF green of wonderful beauty.
They. often follow the irrigation
bitches. making Il double row Of these
trees, walling the orchard or pastures
within. The rows or poplars arc often
100 feet high. AMI that although they
are only sixteen years old. The Gus
tom of using them for fences and to
mark ont the boundary lines Is common
throughout the central valley of Chile.
This adds greatly Ito tho beauty of
the country. II changes the face OF
the landscape and makes it look great
~ like the farming regions OF France.
II is safe to say that the country has
tens of millions of these beautiful
trees. - ~
This great estate is divided by such
trees into sections. Some are devoted
to grain. some to vegetables and fruit
growing and others to the raising of
plants, flowers and trees like our large
nurseries at home, Going onward, we
are socn in the nursery part Of the cS-
tate. we pass rapidly, from one great
tree walled enclosure TO another, rid
ing on the railway. There are so many
separate plantations, and tho varieties
are so different, that | cannot describe
them. Don Salvador tells me that alto
ycthcr he has 30. 600 different species OF
trees on the farm. lie sells half
million eucalyptus trees evry year. and
receives single orders for as many as
10000 trees ut one time. He has one
plantation of citrouS trees in their
various stages Of cultivation. and here
you may I. see oranges, lemons and
granofruit OF every, variety. 7lic has
long lines OF puplars>rrom stock that
came from South Carolina, ana In one
OF the nurseries there are 10000
ncacins. In another section we find
$4,000 peach trees ready for sale, and
as we pass this VIC come into ores of
apple trees, ranging in size from mere
sprouts to almost ;,s high rs our heads.
There are l5o,u00 apple trees in this
field, and, hey are twice us tall and ms
thrifty stress, of-the Same age in our
AMERICAN it,tsolics., had Il snapshot
made of .fson Salvador and myself ms we
stood in che nursery to show the height
OF the trees.
Our next visit is to n plot containing
100000 cypress trees. These were
PLANTED out. only u few days ago, and
;hcy arr nov about as long as my
finger n pick up, IL bunch out OF the
plot and count them have thirty
one trees in my hand. each of which is
an evergreen tina: Will soon be deco
rating some lawn OF Argentina o. Chile.
These trees are raised under great tents
of brush, or arbors. with brush spread
over them. They make me think OF
the tobacco tents in the states. y little
farther on is "a plot OF plum trees that
contains 100000. Farther Still are
oranges, lemons and figs. and other
scmitropical fruits.
Taking the car, wo ride 10 the floral
part of the establishment. There are
more than twelve miles OF railroad on
the estate, and We can so rapidly from
one place 10 another. The lowers arc
a wonder. They are OF almost every
variety of tho temperate and tropical
zones. There are great hothouscs CON
tanning thousands OF orchids, and in
one section arc 10000 rose trees in
Gliding more than 1900 varieties.
There are also vast beds OF lotuscs and
water lilies, and nenr them are groves
Introducing into Chile. lie has forty
varieties OF this fruit brought in from
Japan. Korea and China, and he cS-
poets TO make the Asiatic persimmon
as popular in Chile as ii is now in the
states.
Don Salvador is also experimenting
| in creating dwarf varieties OF plants
as high as my knee that had ripe fruit
| on it, and u hg tree In bearing that
was Of the same size lie is making
| the famous dwarf pines OF Japan, and
! has some which are now a foot high,
! and will ro!nain so for years.
! He Is importing fruits and trees from
! everywhere. and that at great cost. AS
! I walked through the plantation. nc
! showed me forty now varieties OF vines
that had just been unpackod. They
came from Europe, and wero in excel