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Show HARDY FIGS PROVE SUCCESSFUL HERE Horace Stayner of Salt Lake City arrived here last Friday and is enthusiastic enth-usiastic over he prospects here for extensive fig growing. Mr. Stayner sent a few trees of a new variety, the Magnolia, which he had obtained from Texas, to this section sec-tion for experimental purposes, two of which were sent to Bishop Edw. R. Frei of Santa Clara, and others to Hurricane. It is claimed for these fig trees that they will bear fruit a year from planting, also that if frost-killed to the roots they will send up new shoots and bear fruit tire same year. Of the two planted by Bishop Frei one was accidently killed. The other oth-er bore figs but they did not mature, which was hardly to be expected the same year the young trees were planted. If further experiments prove these trees to prove as hardy as is claimed for them and they are as prolific as the varieties now being grown here it will be a great thing for Dixie, as there is much land that could be devoted de-voted to fig growing. Occasionally we have a winter which freezes our fig trees down to the ground, as was the case last winter, and they do not recover as quickly as it is claimed the new variety does. If anyone wants to try out a few of these trees, apply to Bishop Edw. R. Frei, Santa Clara, who will have a few to dispose of. He intends planting plant-ing an acre himself. Mr. Stayner is interested in the Santa Clara Bench lands, and says he has a man and money ready to- put up a preserving plant as soon as sufficient suffici-ent figs are grown to warrant it. |