Show THE FRUIT CITY results of intelligent perseverance and cultivation GROVE june 23 1888 editor deseret news provo has been called the garden city hi utah beina being a Pro we I 1 shallot ot attempt to dispute Is ute the pleas antly suggestive title but ct hav having ang bad 1 occasion to visit this thid city so truly named pleasant grova we are prepared to admit the truism that it aft tates 8 the conceit out of a tellow fellow to ita leave 0 ho home me awhile and see what others are doin doing if provo provo can caa justly claim the title of CITY OF UTAH then certainly her more modest and younger sister on the north can hold up her head with pride as the FRUIT CITY OF UTAH we are aware that this is saying a great deal especially in a country where every town and hamlet barillet save possibly the historic city of the plains points with pride to its 0 orchards r but bat the assertion is made good by the fact that in years beirs when the frost or blight or worms nave have destroyed the fruit elsewhere thir city has peddled its products from dan tp ip beersheba the ane writer vividly remembers paa paying ing a pleasant grove nian man two chinin shinin stil niB dollars for a choice bushel of peaches last year not brough fruit was raised in the entire garden city to satisfy the inward cravings clavings cravi ot of a solitary coddling moth let those who would solve this mystery pay a visit to this fruit centeri center and they will learn that location does not do it all intelligent culture has much to do biti with it when the writer today on one or two occasions ventured a compliment to the owner sot neatly kept orchards he be was met with the remark you ought to visit Wad leys orchard and vineyard before saying much until you do you will not have an all idea of 0 what pleasant grove can do in the way I 1 ot of fruit well we paid it a visit and it is the joy and satisfaction caused thereby that led us to attempt laying A PICTURE before your readers thalmay tb tha i at kiy stimulate others to similar results brother wadle Wad leys yaa place lies just two miles north of the city sad and hus hugs the foot of the mountain HIS orchard C consists of fourteen acres ot oi well 8 selected well pruned trees including a small nursery mainly for his own owa use in praise of the gent gant lemans skill as an be it said that we never before behold beheld so uniformly vigorous and be althya growth of trees surely barely said the writer to his bis guide 66 it vermin thrice on filth you xou must S succeed admirably in keeping your fruit free of bugs and worms so clean is everything in this orchard I 1 1 yes s there is no question but that the fruit t is much improved by cleanly surroundings but even that does not keep the codling moth entirely away in one part of the orchard two hu hundred 11 stands of bees are busily engaged filling ing their hives with sweetness A carpenter has been busy for two weeks loing doing nothing but make hives while brother wadley himself an experienced apiarist has done nothing for a mouth month but GATHER HONEY and hive new stands from what source 10 lo do your bees chiefly draw their honey asked the writer they go up these mountains for five miles and gather honeydew honey dew which I 1 am Informed inform edis ilis thick olevery on very leaf up there it if night overtakes them they remain till next morning mor nina when they return in swarms all loaded down sometimes hal halweger wever they come in perfect clouds empty and th then en we know it is going to st storm orill 1 I 1 you ton regard this then as a good season for bees yes air every dry season is that is the very reason why way more mora honey is produced to the hive here thin than in the east we next visited the vineyard this occupies two and one halt half acres of ground sloping to the south about two feet to the rod in places it seems seefus to be nothing but a bed of gravel in being broken up ten yeats ago rocks larg larger r than a man could lift hit were plowed lowed up and friendly neighbors learning of bro Wad leya leys intention to plant a vine vineyard yara there flocked around to assure him that the land WAS WORTHLESS and the attempt would prove a failure but the sturdy vine dresser had not in vain vaia lived ten years among the grapes of st george agthe sequel has shown tor for from this apparently worthless piece of lot ground twelve tons of choice grapes have been raised in a single season we had the pleasure of sampling some choice raspberries rasp berries growing grolln oli on a tenth of an acre of the same ground which last year produced quarts the first picking selling at 15 the last at 8 cents per quart such is the re ward of inteli intelligent gent and unremitting perseverance at it is no longer a wonder to us how bow so many millions of the israelites could exist on so small a palestine intelligent cultivation explains it all and we venture to say that the cluster of grapes plucked by the spies on the brook of eshcol and carried into the camp 0 of israel can be ri in beauty and richness in this very vineyard here is A HEW WAY to boom utah instead of sending east a vainly decorate decora teti tl car send in stead carload after carload of these trophies of a conquered mollp and intelligent tell igent people will soon learn that boom is of more enduring texture than vibrations in a ra ramified rarified rifled atmosphere mo sphere N L N |