Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-12-13
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Copyrighted. 1914. by Frank G. osspenter9


that you may expect from Chile now
that the Panama canal is completed and
the war demand for American goods is
turning our shipping that way The
vessels carrying our wares to Pacific
South America will furnish cheap re-
turn freights. and the prospect is that
in the near future many of them will
come loaded with fruit. The seasons
on this side of the equator are the op-
posite of ours. The fruit begins to
ripen here late in our fall, and the
Chileans have plums. peaches and pears
ready for the market in the midst of
our winter.
From now on Valparaiso will be within
twD weeks of New York and the canal
has placed South American California.
with its summer products, almost at our
doors.
The prospect of a great exporta ton of
Chilean fruits 10 the United States is
agitating the farmers. The government is
investigating the subject, and schools for
teaching fruit growing and the pack
ing and expectation of fruits are being
esta blished. Chile has long been the
chief fruit-growing country of the
over half of our hemisphere. 1t al
-eady has orchards of hundreds of
acres and its vineyards are yielding
bout 100000 gallons of wine every
ear. There is no land upon earth that
Ias better fruit possibilities and its
products are now TO be dropped upon
Incle Sans tables.
in order 10 give you some idea OF
har this great industry may do for
the United States, have spent a day
nth Don Salvador Izquierdo s in go
ug over his fruit and nursery planta-
tons. situated near the town of Nos
and about twelve miles from Santiago
Don Salvador is the fruit king of Chill.
and might almost call him the Luther
Burbank of our sister continent He
Iias an irrigated hacienda of abou, 400
ores. covered with gardens and or
-hards. and plantations for the raising
ii flowers. plants and trees of almost
very variety He has now more than
i3.000.000 individual plants in the es-
tate and he ships plants by the tens OF
thousands 10 all parts of Chile. and
also across the Andes to Argentina.
ruguay and Brazil.
lie is not only grower of nursery
stock but j. likewise scientific breeder
ii new varieties. Altogether he has
ftroduced into Chile more than $500
new varieties Of fruits and plants
and he has himself originated by cross
'reedfng hundreds of valua BILE trees
md flowers Some of his experiments
lave been along the line of creating
trees not subject 10 certain blights and
rests He has already created four
cen new varieties OF apples not affect
II by the insect known as the schizo-
era lanifera, that is now destroying
our apples OF many parts of the world
The new varieties are grated onto the
talks of ordinary trees. The insect
-raws up the stalk. but it stops where
he gratis begin. and the trees and
heir fruit are found TO be safe.
imong the other experiments of
~"nor Izquierdo $. is the elongating the
cots OF the eucalyptus and other trees
that they can he grown upon the dry
iauds of the tops OF the mountains
THIS is done by sprouting them in pots,
here the young trees are fed with
nitrate of soda and treated in such a
'sy that their roots arc :sl"ri four
'.mes the usual size :; -= '--'~'