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Show Horticulture. The Lincoln (Neb.) Patriot of tin 12th contains 1111 aMo article on horticulture hor-ticulture from the pen of our towns man Colonel S. F. Nuckolls. Wt extract the following reference to Ulan: Utah is a shining example of whu may be accomplished in reclaiming the tcastc plaas, where twenty five years since, the wild Indian pitched his wikiup in the vast field eif saye brush by tho salt shores of America's dead era, now a fair city stands, with 25.000 inhabitants, where everv lot is an orchard and every front yard "a bower of ruses by Beademeer's stream." So, too, tbr (iiriout the territory, from Idaho to Arizona, are scattered pieluresqiia cities, villages and settle -meiUs, refreshing oases in this dejeri land. Whatever mismanagement may be attributed to the Mormons, however much we may difJer with the toncts of their faith, wo wins reipect their wisdom and foresight, ;n iplantiug trees wherever opportunity presented, and in their praiseworthy and indefatigable inde-fatigable labors both in agriculture and iu horticulture. Well may they boast that they have caused the desert to blossom ew the rose. Two notable instances of the sue- 1 oess attending well directed effort, 1 (not however entirely in connection ' with Utah at nrnuftnt. occur tnniv mind. One is the beautiful little town of St. Thomas, as well as the Indian reservation at West Point, on the ' 'Muddy" river, 450 miles south of Salt Lake city, where cottonwooda were hauled 250 miles fr3m the Beaver dams in Utah, and transplanted, and whose royal shade is now enjoyed by many a pilgrim pil-grim in that hot, south laud, as he quails the sparkling product of her vineyards. The other is that beautiful beauti-ful oasis, on the Central Pacific railroad, rail-road, known as tho " Humboldt House," where doubtle.-s mny of your readora have stopped for meaU on tlieir trips to San Francisco and the Golden Gate. Aside from the pecuniary aspects, every man and woman too, of culture and refinement should lake an interest inter-est in this grand suhject, for this if,' nothing else, (so beautifully expressed in the words of another) "a thiug of I beauty h a joy forever." Small POX. As yet no case of this dread disease has appeared in Salt Lake, and it is to bo hoped this city will cecopo the contagion. Everyone seems to be cautious iu the matter, preventives being largely used. Vaccination has all been pretty general throughout the city. |