The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1930-05-16

fruit, without the slightest care
or attention being bestowed upof
them; while in England and Ger
many, and even in France, these
same trees require the utmost ex
ertion of horticultural skill t.
make them bring forth any fruit
whatever. Thus, when the Ro
mans invaded England they found
nothing in the way OF fruit trees
but the c~rab-apple, nut bushes,
and bramble bushes, but by graft.
ing on these, fine apples, filberts,
and r%aspberries were produced,
and it was the same in our own
dear Switzerland-all our fruit
trees were imported"
Were cherries. father? May we
not even call cherries Swiss? l
always thought they grew no
where else"
Il am afraid we cannot even
claim cherries as our own, not
even the name of them; they are
called cherries from CeIasus, a
state Of Pontus, in Asia, whence
they were brought to Europe by
Lucullus, a Roman general, about
seventy years before Christ. Haz-
elnuts also came from Pontus:
walnuts again, came originally
from Persia. AS for grapes, they
are of the greatest antiquity. We
hear, if you remember, of Noah
cultivating vines, and they have
been brought from one place to
another until they now are to be
found in most parts of the civil
lied world"
do you think all these trees
will grow" asked Fritz. as we
crossed Jackal river and entered
our plantation at Tentholm: here
are lemons, pomegranates, pistach-
10 nuts. and mulberries."
81 have little doubt of it," I re-
piled, I'VE are evidently within
the tropics, where such trees as
Iu6Sc are SURE W AlOuI 1911. Acot
pines, now, came from France,
Spain, and Italy; the olives from
Armenia and Palestine; the figs
originally from the island of Chi
os; the peaches and apricots from
Persia; plums from Damascus in
Syria, and the pears of all sorts
from Greece. However, if our
countries have not been blessed
in the same way with fruit, we
have been given wisdom and skill,
which has enabled us to import
and cultivate the trees of other
lands"
We thus talked and worked I'M
til every tree that required the
treatment was provided with a
stout bamboo prop, and then,
with appetites which a gourmand
might well have envied, we re-
turned to Falconhurst. l think the
good mother was almost alarmed
at the way we fell upon the corn
ed beef and palm-cabbage she set
before us, but at length these
good things produced the desired
effect, and one after another de-
clafed himself satisfied. AS we sat
reclining after our labor and di-
costing u dinner, we discussed
the various projects we had in
contemplation. 81 wish" aid my
wife, that you would invent
some plan for climbing to the
nest above us; | think that the
nest itself is perfect really
wish for nothing better, but |
should like to be able to get to
it without scaling that dreadful
every time; could you not
make a flight of steps to reach
it?"
l carefully thought over the
project, and turned over every
plan for it's accomplishment.
1T would be impossible, l am
afraid said /, "to make stairs
outside. but within the trunk it
be done. More than once
have | thought that this trunk
be hollow, or partly So, and
If such be the case our task would
be comparatively easy. Did you
not tell me the other day that
you noticed bees coming from a
hole in the tree?"
ooh, yes" said little Franz,
and l went to look at them and
one flew right against my face
and stung me, and l almost cried,
but l didn't"
Brave little boy" said l. well
now, if the trunk be sufficiently
hollow ITO contain a var of
bees, it may be, for all we can
tell, hollow the greater part Of
its length, for like the willow in
our own country, it might draw
It's nourishment through the bark,
and in spite of it's real unsound-
ness retain a Furnishing appear
ance.'
maSNCl JAIN pldNIiSdl 90 uSudi'
instantly sprang to his feet to put
ny conjecture to the proof. The
rest followed his example, and
hey we're all soon climbing about
ike squirrels, peeping into the
hole. and tapping the wood to
discover by sound how far down
The cavity extended
They forgot, in their eagerness,
who were the tenants of this in I
tarau4{rp trunk rbav rvora e0or f,