Salt Lake Telegram | 1939-08-25 | Page 26 | Back Yard Hobby Becomes Source of Fame for Utahn

Back Yard Hobby Becomes I Source S ounce o of FelIne Fame a aThe me for Utahn The lifelong hobby of raising fruit frees suddenly has become lucrative and brought wide nation publicity to Mrs Mary Milner of 1472 Eleventh East street Pears grown b by Mrs Milner in her back backard yard ard recently took first prize In a national show of new v varieties of ot fruit sp sponsored by a Louisiana Mo nursery The pears are large delicious of an entirely new variety and ripen a month before other types Mrs Milner said The tree was pla planted by her father father Lorenzo Clark and was accidentally broken to to the ground when small When it grew up p again we ve we Knew we had a good pear tree but didn't realize we we had a n new w pear for many many years Mrs Milner said The Missouri nursery has s grafts from the tree and are testing to determine if it the tree will grow well wen in other localities Mrs Milner said In her spacious yard Mrs Milner has many manY manY- other fruit trees trees' planted by herself or her father but they are arc not particularly Int Interesting resting or unusual Along with the t Cash prize her pears won In the show v. is worth of nursery stock which worries worries worries wor wor- ries Mrs MU Milner er slightly I I dont don't know where Ill I'll put it she declared