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

| Take the peach orchard Of which an,
1 writing, IT Is ae clean and we'll kept
| as any ] nnYe ever scsn In the United
states. 1t Is trimmed overy year. aud
tho trees are cut low. 80 THAT tho
branches grow out from tho ground.
AT tho same time. tho limbs arc thin,
so that the sun gives a daily kiss to
every peach on tho treo. bringing u
ripe, rosy blush 10 Its checks. Around
the trunk Of each tree is u little ditch
Tor irrigation. and sprinkled over this
after watering is nitrate OF soda, which
is fed to tho trees ut tho rate OF 200
pounds to the aero. They have no San
Jose scale here. hut Don Salvador uses
tho lime and sulphur spray every win
ter to guard against insect pests of all
kinds.
Tho same careful treatment is OBJ.
served as to all kinds of trees. am
told that tho ordinary native work.
men arc skilled in tho handling OF
fruit, and they learn easily to care
for the trees. Don Salvador has about
are all native chilcnns. and among
them arc men who oan bud and graft.
and who understand almost every
phase OF fruit cultivation.
AS we sat in Santa Ines, tho great
country house OF tho plantation, whore
Don Salvador lives during part of
the summer, / asked him to give me
some idea OF tho possibilities Of Child
as II winter fruit market for tho United
States, Ho replied: gsg
There is no doubt that one of our
chief industries for the future is to be
III raising fruit for the North We
shall soon be able to land fruit In
New York in fourteen days after the
ships leave Valparaiso. and with proper
fruit steamers we can send such va
rieties as will bring the highest prices
at time when there is no other fruit
TO compete with them. Al present
you get some winter fruits from Aug
tralin and Cape Colony, but they are
twenty-HlX days or more from New
York, and you have to pay Il freight
upon them that Is seYeral times az
much as the freight from Chile would
cost Tasmania and New Zealand have
to pay from sl.a5 to $3.50 freight on
Il box of fifty pounds or n bushel to
the United States II we could snip
our fruit ut half that price wa would
have, an advantage of a cents per
buahcl. We expect to 10 great deal
better than that.
The difference In distance would be
4 difference of thousands of miles. The
Tasmanians, for instance, arc now ship
ping fruit to Europe They sold L.
100000 boxes of apples there last year,
and received thcrefroni something like
S5,000,300. Chile can raise as good
uppieS uS aItS ptTt OF the world, ana
we shall send our fruit North through
tho canal to Europe as we'll. II Is said
| that we ought to DO able to ship apples
there Mt a freight rate of so or 80
cents box, or from Sla'to 81 tom"
Mention sonln kind of fruit that
Chile could send us and the months
when we could receive then.'s said l.
| Our fruit season lasts from Novem-
| Der until May, During those months
| we could give YOU tho best OF frpsb
fruits. Here are some OF them: We
could furnish green almonds from De.
! cember TO June and ripe chestnuta In
/ March and April. Green almonds are
q delicncy. which you dc not have in
America, but they bring enormous
| prices In France. We could supply
you with peaches during the months Of
! December, January, February. March
and April and ripe plums In January,
| February and March. We can give you
alligator pears. or Daltas In March,
| April, May, June, July and August, and
| papayas in March, April, May mud
! June. AS to our grapes, they arc equal