Show I I D The Arizona Experiment Station In Ina a Just the pre Hints for Farmers No 83 enumerates tho prIncipal plants ablo for ca cultivation In the Southwest As are almo t applicable to thc conditions of heat frost and alkali pre prevailing ver most or the Great It Is well worth while to as ascertain certain what plants are well fOI areas with a to ten to For large trees like the and mul berr the soli be tet In depth tho Is shallow thIs plan II Dig out the caliche to a depth ot three feet or so and then things up below with witha a slick or No and a good or black I uch holed may 00 filled with soll pre preferably a sandy loam mixed with lear mould chilI I tt J manure 01 other miscellaneous organic mat I as bark ana In the proportion of one palt ot tho latter to Cour or Jve or the All such carelessly about can be together and turned to good account In WI It In keeping foil tram too compact be the necessary humus Eyen the soil hI deep It bo up b and mixed with or Heavy clu soli II or and adobe soils of are ery In this wai 11 Is not advisable to Ufe fresh barn manure or wood ashes The soil he cultivated four tu six about the planta atter fath 01 dur durIn In the 11 on or better ct and thorough ul UV n lh j I h t r 1 er or chip dirt old manure or trash to In oration Sufficient watering to keep tho plants growing will be until the hao become In their new atter which tho Tess should bo watered a month dur durIng Ing periods Too much cannot bo laid on deep cul cultivation and thorough Irrigation helps deep root formation on the other hand constant light wa watering or with or no which 18 vcr com common mon tends to shallow root ment Bosini four to six feet In diameter antI a tow Inch deep should bo mado bolow the of the about the TheBe collect a large amount of durIng rain es If 13 Inclined gentl toward them Tho treel recommended aro the Arizona Mh and honl A tree the willow 0 and nl species or the west aro Tho desert gum red boX Arizona and Australian aN f r the aleas Huth hies lt the and Japanese Iv such shrubs as Ja anese quince Scotch broom and tho gold ot rose thelle are fOl the 11 and A of saH bushes ul o the p herb round most l at tho Un or sity arc named with near our own moru northern Hora and the latter as well ns the species enu by the writer do wull In our own gardens Thus Such winter and spring growing plants as Gail Gaillardia l Jon and the III require lit little tle or no during the Mummer when Iho are Inactive especial If In the protection ot and onlY L moderato of Irrigation during tho lato winter spring months For I reMon the be planted much with us Gennan Iris as laender and peri periwinkle winkle amonS the Introduced and alum root California fuch In tall Gaillardia and wild ot the native be given durIng the perIods April to June and also the al dr Titer hilS In mind of Iris plants have done well under con conditions for six Carl with Irrigation tion other than the rainfall the kept green nearl all the time hae however seldom blossomed The lavender plant allo ery much at home on our mesa with limited Irrigation It read II from leat stems or put In the In tho and Is being used to on tho grounds as Il border plant The native I almon and lavender flowered aud need to be Introduced onell In order to make certain or their growth from ear to ear Farmers and or tIle southwest portions ot this state do well to be guided In L general b the e publications of the Arizona |