The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-10-31
|OKALOOSA COUNTY NAN
DEMONSTRATES WORTH
OF NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.


the barn lot over into the farm where Mr..
and Mrs. Sapp and their whole family,
even tc the third generation, were har-
vesting the family's potato crop. And it
was there that I met the wonderfully
pleasing and patient man who will go
history of the section in which he lives,
as parsonage no less important to that
section than Luther Burbank has been tc.
the section where he lives.
Q From Mr.. Sapp himself, 1 got the OBJ
sorbingly interesting story of his develop
ment of the burberry. And the story
was as simple as twas interesting. But
1t was a story of a remarkable tenacity
OF purpose; a remarkable amount Of Ia
bcr; remarkable amount of patience
a story, indeed covering a period of thir-
ty years, because 1t was thirty years ago
that MIR. Sapp first went into the yell
low river swamps and got the parent
stock of his present twenty-acre blue
berry orchard And all of these years he
has been experimenting, experimenting,
experimenting, in a sustained and tire
less effort to improve the wild whortle-
berry!
And his success?
Wonderful beyond compare!
And this success has been. not in, the
propagation of new horticultural
species, but, through cultivation and fer
tilization, the improvement Of the fruit of
the wild stock, and, though through his
nursery operations, he sell thousands of
sprouts from his cultivated orchard, he
still gets his parent stock from the
swamps Of the Yellow river. And from
year to year, he extends the area Of his
orchard, which still includes the original
.s~A-~ \
which are bearing more and more pre-
ILLEGALLY every year.
The culture OF the BURBERRY is a very
simple process, which has been discov-
cred of course through the evolution of
Mr.. Sapp's experiments. 1t is done prin-
cipally through blowing and fertilization
and but little pruning. And Mr.. Sapp has
found that they do best and yield mere
prolifically when planted in squares, six
teen feet apart. And while the bushes
are young. Or for several years, the Gull
ture of other crops between the rows of
bushes, proves beneficial, rather, than
detrimental. Indeed. between the rows OF
the youngest bushes of the Sapp orchard,
I saw a beautiful crop of six acres of
cabbage growing, which will be harvest
ed in the spring.
blueberry crop. I asked Ny. Sapp the
leading question as to the money returns
from last years crop OF berries, but on
that question the father Of the BURBERRY
which very courteous, was rath-
err mere reticent than he had been upon
other subjects connected with the indus
try's development, and his orchard as I
saw it. However, he showed me perfect
forest Of adult bushes-some fourteen
acres of them-which he said yielded an
average Of 81 to 40 quarts of berries each, |
last year; also stating that he hadn't sold
quart Of fruit at less than zoe per |
1uart And then. besides this, is his In |
Como from his nursery stock, every sprfg !
Of which is contracted to the Glenn St |
Mary's Nurseries.
However, conservative men who have
an approximate knowledge of the income |
which Mr.. Sapp derives from his blueher- !
~ interests told me at Crestview Thurs |
lay that for several years his income has
run into money approximating five fig !
Tres.
Sc, thanks to the pertinacity OF Mr.. |
passed from the crysilis stage of expert
nent, into the dignity of fixed and
stable horticultural industry.
And aside from its lusciousness and de-
icious qualities as a dessert fruit, the
olueberry is one Of the firmest and most
EASILY and safely shipped fruits known to
he fruit culturalist. Indeed, 1t is one Of
he few fruits which shipped under refrig-
,ration, will arrive at a destination a
thousand miles away from the orchard in
which it grows in practically as good con-
lition as when packed.
OF course the Sapp orchard is the pa
ent orchard of the industry, but now
hat the trail has been blazed by the
,athfinder OF the industry, BURBERRY Gull
ure is increasing by leaps and bounds
throughout Okaloosa, Walton and Santa
aosa counties and the coming few years
viii witness it an industry which will