The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1914-12-13
BY FRANK G.. CARPENTER

This great estate is divided by such
trees into SECTIONS So me are devoted
to grain, some to zege tables and fruit
growing and Others to. the raising of
plants. flowers and trees like our large
nurseries at hone-l Going onward we
are soon in the ustrsery part of the
estate. We pass rapidly from one great
tree-walled enclosure to another, rid
ing on the railway Theme are so many
separate plantations. and the varieties
are so different, thai. cannot describe
them. Don Salvador kteDs me that al
together he has so. och different species
of trees on the farm. He sells half
million eucalyptus tire es every year and
receives single orderst for as many a.
10000 trees at, one h11e. lie mas one
plantation of cittous rses in their var
ious stages of GUILTY. ation. and here
YOU may see orange !. lemons and
grapefruit Of every variety. He has
long lines of poplars from stock that
came from South Caro- iies, and in one
of the nurseries there re. 10000 acacies.
In another section WE find 250.000
peach trees ready for sale, and as We
pass this we come intct acres of apple
trees, ranging lin SIP from mere
sprouts to almost as hi gh as our heads,
There are 10000 apple trees in this
field, and they are twi ce as tall and as
thrifty as trees of the Same age in our
American nurseries. I had a snapshot
made of Don Sa kvador and myself as
we stood in the nursery TO show the
height OF the trees.
Our next visit is to a. plot containing
10000 Cypress trees. These. were planted
out only a few da.fs ago, and they are
now about as long as my finger. | pick
up bunch out Of the plot and count
them. I have 81 tire es in my hand, each
of which is an ever green that will soon
be decorating some liwn OF Argentina or
Chile These trees are raised under great
tents of brush or arbors with brush
spread over them. 7 hey make me think
of the tobacco tents in the states. A little
farther on is a plot ,f plum trees that
contains 300, 600. Farthe u still are oranges,
lemons and figs. and other sem-tropical
fruits.
Taking the car. we. eide 20 the floral
part of the establishm ent. There are
more than IL miles of railroad on the
estate, and we can go rapidly from one
place to another. The II DIVERS are a Won
der. They are of alnt Est every variety
Of the temperate and tro pical zones. There
are great hcWhoises containing thousands
of orchids, hnd in one section are 1000
rose trees, inelading more than 1000 var1e-
ties There aye also WASH beds of lotuses
and water li1yes, and near them are
groves of persiulmons, which Don Saliva
dor is introducing into chile. He has 40
varieties of this fruit brought in from
Japan. Corea AND China and he expects
to make the Asia tic persimnion 8 popular
In Chile as it is now in the statee.
Don Salvador iA also experimenting In
creating dwarf vsrieties of plants and
trees. He showed me peach tree as
high as my knee Mat had ripe fruit on
it, and fig tree irs bearing that was of
the same size He = making the famous
dwarf pines of JAPAN. and has some
which are now 70 ,t high and will re-
main so far years
lie is importing fruits and trees from
everywhere, and that at great cost. AS
| walked through the plantation he
showed me 40 new vari etsss of vines that
had lust been unpacked., They came from
Europe and We're in excellent condition.
But this was not so of some other flow
ers an order costing s10.tW having all died
on the way.
During my stay | VII. Eted the packing
establishments where fruit and vege-
tables are put up I mighs also say by the
tom The hacienda has great cement
warehouses equipped wit h the most mod
ern machinery for dryiniT. preserving and
canning 1t has great bu hdiags filled with
tin plates made by the 'heei trust of the
United States and brouiyh here for the
purpose. The cans are made in the fac
tory by machines run BIZ electricity and
managed by Chileno mtn, women and
children. The peaches are peeled by a
machine that does the work of $50 women
and all of the fruit and vegetables are
cooked by steam in the cans. The factory
can make 10000 cans in a day, and it
ships It's product away by the carload.
In connection with the canning, | want