Show A A SKETCH OF VAN MONS rr Y RAISING NEW KINDS 0 J mout TOUT lt U ant aft TREES BY systematic T EA J SEEDING editor des Deo deseret eret competent lle irk in europe la Is more or less leas acquainted with math van mops mons theory As utah Js a fane fine fruit equa country try it la night right that hat bat a short statement ept on that subject shoun b be presented to your nurge rous readers when a every very young joung school boyi mr if r van dons doas late professor of botany at louvain heig Helg lum luw being eing extremely kind klad pursuit began to beed seed systematically in his bis fathers father 4 garde garden tj in watching closely the ways by nature to modify the plants in the thet vegetable kingdom he be wah waa soon struck by hy tho the following ideas namely nara napa ely that every kind of stone and pip fruit trees frees have had since their origin a certain limited period of time to exist thau that the fruit trees then thea liv jing being alipat all ail extremely old oid were evi evl dently fast degenerating and that many would soon entirely perish that chati consequently it was elpe expedient lent leni that we vre should raise new species e by the same process by which our trees now running out were vere were originally pearled these original ideas adeas being published by a very young amat eurand under un circumstances were entirely unnoticed in the european world but mr van mons still persevered in his experiments the principal object he had in view in his invests mationg gatio may be thus recapitulated to collect the seeds of the wild truit fruit trees and to plant them then to replant their product i from generation to generation that abdi being n g the only true natural way to get every emery kind of new now fruits equal or superior to ours and which shall possess the same vitality as ours when started A few figures will now show you what a large amount of heroic patience was displayed by mr van mons in his pursuits the pip trees proceeding from their first sowing or planting began to show fruit only after fayteen fifteen years that fruit so long expected was small sour detestable d et estable the pips bips having been replanted bore after twelve years and the fruit was no more edible than the first the third generation bore fruit after eight years the fourth after six years and the fifth after five years the following generations bor bore e a little sooner the pips bips of the ninth generation bore after three years which is the shortest possible term after the fifth generation all the fruits were large and very edible after the eighth generation every onedas one was perfect A noble conquest pon quest was the result of such perseverance A magnificent collection of new fruits unequalled unequal led in the world was finally made by mr van mons pe ue hastily distributed the scions of his trees to all the amateurs in europe desiring to realize its result the amol 0 i cal cai problem problem wa was solved new rind tind kinds 1 of af fruci fruit trees were raised every pip planted by him produced excellent fruit and none produced wild fruit the stone fruit trees follow the same natural law but more promptly in acting according to the information given by mr van mons theory five generations or twenty years are necessary forthe for the pip fruit trees four genera tion sor fifteen years for the stone ones aften after that length of time the expert mentalist trient alist can get new fruit edible but to be perfected by constantly planting and dud re planting the seeds and those of will bp be 6 the reward kot lot of furth further er expert prients now every one an perceive that ir fr van lions monab theory haa baa no ino reference whatever to the grape grape culture by adopting and aud realizing the general hints expressed therein our parent agricultural society will certainly make our mountain home the most flourishing fruit country on this continent in regard to my present speciality p ecial ity 1 I by no means profess profesa to be a perfect french vine dresser I 1 learned the little I 1 know on that subject partly in my fathers vineyard and partly from my own experiments ants the thu dry climate of northern utah and particularly that within the genial influence of the salt lake Is ia generally speaking and will prove more and more favorable to the successful cultivation of several leading european and native vines anes I 1 therefore I 1 will make my best exertion exertions i sao sto to publish for the general benefit of my fellow citizens every kind of useful information I 1 may derive from my actual experiments in the systematic seeding of grapes yours very respectfully louis louls A BERTRAND berirand TOOELE july 1868 |