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out the boundary lines is common
throughout the central valley of Chile.
This adds greatly to. the beauty of the
country. It changes the feoe Of tie land
scape and makes 1t look greatly like the
farming regions of France. 1t is safe to
say that the country has tens of millions
of these beautiful trees.
Trees Divide the Estate.
This great estate is divided by such
trees into sections. Some are devoted to
grain, some to vegetables and frult'grow-
ing, and others to the raising of plants,
flowers and trees like our large nurseries
| at home. Going onward, we are soon in
the nursery part of the estate. We pass
rapidly from one great tree-walled en-
closure to another, riding on the railway.
There are so many separate plantations,
and the varieties are so different, that
1 cannot describe them. Don Salvador
tells me that altogether he has 5000 diff
ferent species OF trees on the farm. He
sells a half-million eucalyptus trees every
year, and receives single orders for as
many as 10000 trees at one time. He has
one plantation OF citurus trees in their
various stages Of cultivation, and here
you may see oranges, lemons and grape
fruit of every variety. He has long lines
Of poplars from stock that came from
South Carolina, and in one OF the nurse
ries there are 1000 acacias. In another
section we find $4,000 peach trees ready
for sale. and as we pass this we come
into acres OF apple trees, ranging In size
from mere sprouts to almost as high as
our heads. There are 10000 apple trees
In this field, and they are twice as tall
and as thrifty as trees of the same age
in our American nurseries. had snap
shot made OF Don Salvador and myself
as we stood in the nursery to show the
height Of the trees.
Our next visit is to plot containing
10000 cypress trees. These were planted
out only a few days ago, and they are
now about as long as my finger. 1 pick
UP a bunch out OF the plot and count
them I have thirty-one trees in my
hand. each of which is an evergreen that
will soon be decorating some lawn of
Argentina or Chile. These trees are
raised under great tents of brush or
arbors. with brush spread over them.
Theyomake me think OF the tobacco tents
in the states. A little further on is a
plot of plum trees that contains 100000
Farther still are oranges. lemons ana
figs, and other semi-tropical fruits.
Twelve Miles of Railroad.
Taking the car. we ride TO the floral
part of the establishment There are
more than twelve miles OF railroad on
the estate, and we can go rapidly from
one place to another. The flowers are
a wonder They are OF almost every
variety of the temperate and tropical
, zones There are great lighthouses con-
tanning thousands OF orchids, and in one
section are $4,000 rose trees, including
more than 800 varieties. There are also
vast beds of lotuses and water lilies, and
near them are groves of persimmons.
} which Don Salvador is introducing into
/ Chile. He has forty varieties Of this
fruit brought in from Japan, Korea and
, China, and he expects to make the AslatiC
{ persimmon as popular in Chile as 1t IL
r now in the states.
Don Salvador IL also experimenting In
I creating dwarf varieties Of plants and
trees. He showed me peach tree az
. high as my knee that had ripe fruit or
; II, and a fig tree in bearing that was OF
4 the same size. He is making the famous
dwarf pines OF Japan, and has SONS
which are now a foot high and will re
main so for years.
a He is importing fruits and trees from
. everywhere. and that at great cost Al
walked through the plantation b,
: showed me forty new varieties OF vine
= that had just been unpacked. They cams
I from Europe and were In excellent condi
! ton. But this was not SO OF some othe
!. flowers, an order costing $4,000 havinI
: ali died on the way
During my stay visited the paekinI
. establishments where fruit and vegetable
: are put up l might almost say by tn
a ton. The hacienda has great cemen
n warehouses equipped with the mos
= modern machinery for drying. preserYin
y and canning II has great buildings file
y with tin plates made by the steel trus
= OF the United states and brought her
n for the purpose. The cans are made 4
), the factory by machines run by cleo
k trieity and managed by chileno mer