Show kings peach orchard the other day the CLIPPER called at mr kings peach ranch as they are called in california at far to learn something about the prospects of his peach crop this year As is well known by the majority of our readers mr king is the most extensive peach grower in our county and we belive the largest in the territory however there is one other person in southern or southeastern utah who grows large quantities of this delicious fruit but he is the only man that we know of who makes peach growing W a specialty mr king has of orchard in all nearly all of it being peach orchard hird the trees are nearly all or were before they were picked well loaded with peaches and present a handsome picture mr king like the california fruit growers goes though the orchard d during the month of june and thins the peaches on the trees so that thai they stand about four inches apart thus giving them plenty of room to develop an and d also making it possible for the tree to supply suir dicent nutriment to the peach to make it grow large early in the spring long before the leaves appear tile the tree is I 1 carefully pruned and all surplus limbs brandies branches and twigs are arc cut off and the tips of those brandies branches which remain are cut back some most or the wood is cut from the centre of the tree to allow the sum to shine on the fruit mr king has hag quite it a var variety bety of peaches the earliest getting gettine ripe in july and the latest in october and with tile the exception of about two weeks has them all alonz alone between the two dates now a word phout g peaches lel cile which aas epen coine anina on an since tile the twenty third of cuir three or four men pick i the peaches pesel leq putting them in small emall market basket three of which are carried at a trip irin by a bov to a ailara a log ina under the shale shade of two large locust trees where they are wrapped in tissue papers liv bv a couple of young ladies who have become quite expert at the work and are then in hedes hexes reada for market about sixty of nf them fire arc taken at it loid bj by ur mr kina in chiq ln s laree lame fruit wf lerin which was mada especially for tle the the alip are rn PO low that flint the file pickers picker ct can reach nil all me fruit from the ground and in do not at need mel ladden enof of at the flip fruit is s sold in silt lake city cita to an the stored and hotels on fruit dealer takina ni many manvitz a five boxes boxel at a time and linthi six mr king 1 still holds that if more pertle people would raise good clips 0 tn o that milt we would lie be justified ju citified in looking to sn an ont outside ide that iglic lucli fruit could bp be and good profits realized grower |