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frost comes, generally gathering large 

 quantities, and of fine quality. While 

 we have other honey-plants here, those 

 that I have mentioned, with our tree and 

 fruit bloom, are the principal ones. 



Now I believe that facts will bear me 

 out in the assertion that for quality and 



compass. In California and Australia 

 they may sometimes excel us in quantity, 

 but not in quality. 



Salt Lake City is what is called a gar- 

 den city. The streets are 130 feet 

 wide, with streams of water and rows of 

 shade-trees on each side of the street. 



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quantity combined, either in a honey or 

 potato crops, there is no part of the 

 United States that can lay Utah or Col- 

 orado in the shade. If there is any 

 other place that can do it, we do not 

 know whereit is. This is no idle " blow," 

 but it is one good reason why we ship 

 some of our honey to all points of the 



The sidewalks are 16 feet, making the 

 streets 100 feet between the rows of 

 trees. Many of the trees produce 

 honey. Then, except in or near the 

 business part of the city, each house oc- 

 cupies a lot about 5x10 rods, and nearly 

 all of them have a fruit orchard, more 

 or less. Thus we see' that not only Salt 



