El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-07-10
SHADE AND FRUIT IN FL PAsO YARD5i
FINE ORCHARDS BEHIND THE HOUSE,
EXAMPLES Of WHAT Can Be Done
Albert Goodoe Has Many Plums Peaches and Grapes IN
Grand View; Grape ArbOr Loaded With Grapes
in Two Years; Peaches as Big as Oranges;
sodapop Used as a Fertilizer.
LBERT GoODLoE has pla

TRERT GOODLOE has placed in
a the window Of the Newman In
4 vestment company limbs from
. ,our1e of fruit trees on his place
Z, block a. Graudview. that serve
well to demonstrate what can be
grown in the yards Of FL Paso with
proper care and attention. Mr.. Good
Ioe set out 20 trees four years ago
and this wear he has gathered more
fruft than he could use. He got two
tubs fuu OF cherries-the variety
grown at Mountain Park-and has
trees loaded with plums, peaches, ap-
ules and pears. He also has a num-
Ter Of crane vines that are fairly
loaded down with fruit. One OF his
plum trees had 40 plums on one small
limb that grew out this season, any
one Of them as big as the California
plum usually marketed in FL Paso.
Where he picked off some OF the young
fruit and only left a few plums to a
limb. they are almost as large as the
average lemon
Everything I planted grew well and
produced well except the pears" he
said. i got So big yellow apples from
an apple tree last year
MANY owners Of yards are planting
fruit trees, particularly those in the
other ABaek Yard Orchards
John Harm has TWO very fine peach
trees in his yard in Orchard Park ad-
dition. one of them with peaches on
il almost as large as oranges He
also has a grape arbOr that is loaded
down with very fine white grapes.
There are a number Of other fruit trees
in the yards Whereabouts
At 2911 Bliss street, in a rear yard.
has been demonstrated what can pc
done in a short time with grapes In the
spring of 1912, II vines were put out
in this back yard, and this year they
cover an arbOr q feet long and seven
feet high. and are loaded down with
fruit. some Of IL very large The vines
were not cut back, as the shade was
mostly desired, yet the grapes are al
large and healthy. Mr.. Harm cut his
vines back somewhat and the fruit Is
larger In the Bliss street yard there
are II peach and plum trees. and two
OF the peach trees and one OF the
plum trees are bearing fruit this year,
They were only put out in 1912 and
were a year old at that time.
Shade and Fruit, Too
Many other suburban residents are
having equal success with their fruit
1t is possible 70 have shade trees IN
FL Paso that will not only. oeautlty
the yard, but will also produce fruit
enough for the entire family, and they
are grown with very little trouble
IN any sort Of soil, they appear TO do
we'll II Watered enough The SOIL AZ
the Harm place is black adobe at the
Bliss street and Goodloe places 1t Is
gravel with sand in it Too much wa
Ter. unless there is proper drainage
will kill the trees: this recently oc-
Cured at the Bliss street place with
q plum tree that was set out IN 4
low place. where dripptngS from the
hydraut constantly flowed TO II Just
the opposite happened IN another sec
9 a
rose bush was subjected TO the same
conditions The rose bush grew faster
than anything else in the yard
Sodapop as Fertilizer.
That an ordinary bottle Of sodapop
poured in the ground around a fruit
tree every day viii bring back IN frult
returns the extra expense OF lFrlsa-
! ton is the latest declaration from the
horticultural world This mas not oesn cen
tested out in FL Paso, but IS the
declaration Of F. n Lang, Of 1905 Mar
/ Vista street, Pasadena. Calf. after
series Of experiments extending over a
period Of several months. he IlIas
7 that carbonated water OF the ordinary
soda fountain variety IS better fer
tilizezr than any product on the mar
Izet.
Mr.. Lang Is a Wisconsin horticul-
turist who went to California last win
ter Shortly after his arrival he filled
two tumblers with soil and planted a
dozen beans in each One was kept
moist with pure water ana the olher
with sodapop. BY the time the beans
in the water dampened glass had
sprouted. those in the other glass had
grown TO a height Of eight inches
The same results can be attained with
anything dependent upon soil nourish-
ment for its growth, he asserts. as
shown by his experiments with differ
emit forms of tree and plant life.
CnrboniferOus Age.
During the carboniferous age IN
der the influence Of warmth, moisture
and an almost unlimited supply OF car
bon, the earth. or many parts Of Il,
was covered with q veritable jungle
OF vegetation, which eventually turned
into coal" he declared.
"As the supply Of carbonic acid gas
grew less the plant growth became less
vigorous. and the road was opened for
animal life. One Of the main objects
OF mankind is furnishing food. so the
growing Of plants in the shortest pos
sIbIe time, and to the largest possible
size. is the prime object Of the agri-
cultural and Horticultural fraternity.
Many other Experiments.
Hundreds Of years and millions OF
dollars have been spent in experiment
ing with fertilizers intended to hasten