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not be found in all this great State— famous for its 

 orcliards — a more healthy, better kept one than that 

 owned by Mr, AYhiting ; and be it remembered, that in 

 this country, vrhere irrigation is thought to be so 

 necessary to the successful o-rowino- of fruits, the owner 

 of this orchard has proven, beyond peradventure of a 

 doubt, that irrigation is not necessary, for he uses no 

 artificial means to water his fruit trees, depending only 

 upon the rains sent down from heaven and thorough 

 cultivation to reach the high state of perfection that 

 his orchard has attained. Xot a tree but that looks 

 the picture of health, and the orchard, which will have 

 been set out four years in December, is evidence of 

 what this land will do. 



The orchard consists of 100 acres of Freiich prunes, 

 ten acres of apricots, five acres of Bartlett pears, ten 

 acres of chestnuts and pecans, ten acres of soft shell 

 walnuts, five or six acres of an assorted family orchard, 

 and an acre nursery of nut-bearing trees. 



Even this year the trees bore a very fine crop con- 

 sidering their age, and from now on the income from 

 this orchard will be extremely remunerative and highly 

 gratifying. That walnut trees will grow without irriga- 

 tion is demonstrated by the results obtained by Mr. 

 "Whiting, for his ten acre walnut grove looks most 

 flourishino'. In a few more vears this orchard will be 

 yielding an immense income, and it is now the pride of 

 Orange county. 



Getting into a buggy, we drive along beside the rows 

 of graceful fruit trees up to the top of a little hill, 

 south of the farm-houses and orchard. Eeaching the 

 eminence, and casting our eyes back over the country 



