THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
Hut, however much attention is directed to the cotton 
states and their immediate neighbors, the great West 
can suffer little, for large interests are at stake there and 
the successful methods employed in southern enterprise 
will be adopted in the West. Improved irrigation 
methods are opening up hitherto undeveloped land over 
broad areas, and though it is charged that irrigating cor¬ 
porations have expended millions in the development of 
certain districts and have not settled those districts, the 
settlement will take care of itself. Arid lands made fertile 
will speedily attract settlers. 
There is room for the development of both the West 
and the South. And closely following the land agent 
must come the nurseryman. 
IOWA’S FRUIT FACILITIES. 
Editor of The National Nurseryman: 
We are glad to notice in the columns of your valuable 
paper that many northern men and syndicates with 
characteristic northern push and energy are going into 
the South to develop the fruit interests of that region. 
But may it not be just possible that there are fully as 
good openings here? We have the market, and the soil ; 
and the results that are being achieved leads one to be¬ 
lieve that a proper selection of varieties, systematic, in¬ 
telligent and intensive cultivation will produce results of 
which we never dreamed. As object lessons along this 
line we have only to speak of Hon. John Y. Stone’s eight 
hundred-acre apple orchard, in Mills county ; Mr. Bacon’s 
nearly two hundred-acre plum orchard, and the model 
fruit farm of Hon. Jas. G. Berryhill near Des Moines, con¬ 
sisting of four hundred acres. Here we find what careful 
selection and intensive culture will do on the soils of 
Iowa. Mr. Berryhill’s plum orchard of native varieties, 
worked on American stocks four years old, were a grand 
sight. Never had we seen trees so heavily laden. Such 
varieties of oriental plums as Abundance, Burbank, and 
Willard surprised us by their crops. There were thousands 
of plum trees, three thousand apple, consisting of natives 
and Russians, the latter not showing a particle of blight; 
twenty acres in vineyard ; sixteen acres of blackberries 
in one field j one-sixth of an acre of gooseberries that 
produced fruit valued at $30; a large cherry orchard of 
natives and Russians, with heavy crops. More trees are 
being planted each year. Mr. Berryhill is also largely 
interested in growing fruit in Texas; but he says he wants 
to demonstrate that proper selection and intensive culti¬ 
vation with liberal fertilizing will make it unneces'ary to 
go to Texas or Missouri to grow fruit, and that right here 
in Iowa we can do our share toward supplying the mar¬ 
kets of the world. 
F. E. Pease. 
Des Moines, la. 
Professor T. V. Munson has raised over 100,000 seedling 
grapes—the work of fifteen years of zealous, painstaking 
care, study and labor. 
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ARIZONA FRUIT INDUSTRY. 
C. B. Jeffries, Fresno, Cal., writes to the California 
Fruit Groiver: “Arizona has some very fine apricot 
orchards. The Arizona Improvement Co. has an apricot 
orchard of 100 acres at Glendale. This is the finest 
orchard I have ever seen. The Arizona apricots, for some 
reason are small, and did not do very well in the eastern 
market this year, as they had two weeks of cold weather, 
which brought them in at the same time as the California 
shipments. The Early Newcastle variety can be shipped 
from therein car lots by the 15th of May. This year 
they were not ready to ship, and had to be dried. 
“The fruit industry in Arizona is limited to grapes and 
apricots. There are some very fine orange orchards in that 
section, but I was not there during the orange season and 
am not able to say what they amount to. 
“They have a four and a half day service from Phcenix 
by way of the Santa Fe to Chicago, and my reports from 
Chicago are that the fruit arrived there in elegant condi¬ 
tion, and that some of the grapes were on the market 
four days after arriving, being still in fine condition. 
Arizona seems to be the home of the Thompson Seed¬ 
less grape, as I never saw finer berries or clusters than in 
that section.” 
CASE OF SUBSTITUTION. 
Twenty-six years ago we ordered a thousand pear trees 
from a prominent nursery in this state, says the Fruit 
GroiVi rs'Journal {WWnois). The choice of varieties was 
probably not a very wise one, as the knowledge was not 
here at the time that was essential to a judicious selec¬ 
tion. That, however, has no bearing on the case. The 
varieties ordered were the ones we wanted. Right or 
wrong we ordered what we wanted, but didn’t get them. 
The nurseryman was honest enough to label them cor¬ 
rectly. There were probably a hundred trees of the kinds 
ordered, the rest were without value. Some months 
later the bill came, and so many trees as were of the 
varieties ordered, were paid for and a refusal made to pay 
for the others. The trees were all planted out and cared 
for, and the nurseryman notified that we were taking 
good care of his trees and he could have them whenever 
he wanted them. The bill came with great regularity for 
three or four years and the same answer returned each 
year. The trees are not yet paid for, and for twenty 
years we have heard nothing about the pay. Possibly in 
accepting the trees and planting them out we became 
liable, but the nurseryman did not care to risk the ex¬ 
posure that would follow a trial. If every purchaser 
would follow the same course a check would be given to 
the dishonest practice of substitution. The American 
Garden thinks the practice of substitutioti is not as 
prevalent as regards trees as formerly; probably it is not, 
but in the manner of seeds the practice is in full blast. 
The W. S. Little Co. of this city, has been incorporated 
with a capital stock of $15,000. A. D. Pratt is manager. 
