Show WHEN AND WHERE TO PLANT TREES As the request for information about what and when to plant are more numerous than can be convene conveniently an igwe red in individual lett letters eTs with your kind ind permission I 1 will give a few hints to the public through your columns which will I 1 believe best answer the th purpose A great many trees are being belli planted this tall fall about one hundred and twenty thousand trees are billed and sent out from nursery firms having officers in salt lake city and vicinity alone of course a large part of these to idaho montana colorado and a big load of fifteen thousand even as far east as illinois now one must mus t consider the results this will produce in the he future and regulate our planting accordingly so labor and I 1 spital may be profitably employed and not wasted as was VMS done formerly in many instances as witness our famine for plums four or five years ago plums wre wore then selling from up to as hish high as 3 per bushel today the county is swamped with ith plums which annot stand to be e exported and will wil not pay to evaporate we wont want no more of that kind of 0 wid business us iness still tree planters need not fear ar an over supply or of fruit if wisdom is ta used and thi tha right kind of trees are planted ll anted in the right local localities kles but there is the rub most people owning land and think that vin can grow on their heir land and so tt it i t may but will it pay y to grower grow that is the now ow to star dont plant pl int grape vines ivines or peaches on low wet or alkali lands ads but on suh su h lands plant I epars ears the e most is th the arre andow the pea barry and winter nellies lles if land is very wet and poor low it up v nith ith a big ridge niile in the th adle by plowing th land two no n o or inree times ine octif favri wiy way with alv or of making a ridge a foot or i djs hi fit nn lies hes higher eigher than the arv ast st patt iti a 11 i d t lant n this ridge rid a so the trees will not ni n i 1 have ave 0 o stand with w wr n i t hr ugh ow ia v inter in such locality a good pear orchard ard will pay and pay big if culli grated abed and attended to the pears picked land ird put in a dark cellar to ripen and hot ot allowed to stay on the trees to rot rat the next land above that level and still what you may call low land is suitable le for apple orchards there again judgment must be used if close to bo a d local market or not next if the or hard will be exposed to frequent and seavy eavy winds as on the west side of jordan if so plant only small and medium iced fruit that will hang on and not drop off say wine sap and Joma jonathan lf it ground is sheltered add ben davis and nd newton spitzenburg the latter also alao tail aall vandevere these four are the anoney fe oney makers if you are away from a LK et and have to pack and haul achem in a distance as they can stand it and will biln bring a good price now if on abe the other hand you are close to a good ro arket a large city or a strong mining mp add some twenty ounce rhode greening red astrican and balthy but riot not too many say one of the last laet four varieties and three dourthe of the first and you will eomme equit out right in regard to plums it plant plaint them at all except tor fora a very mod od local market then plant a few ft fferson jackson or peach plums all lie same only different name for same bicle and a few pound seedling or prune also two gaimes for lie e same article troth both of these stand if mile ahead of anything else in the eplum in kne As for fior prunes where locality 1 suitable which is as the lower bench abuid d in salt lake valley and land indy and warm but not too dry and ae tony ny and not subject to late spring st that kills kill the blossoms blow oms it if you e auch land and plant prune and cherries but if not stay by the apples and pears the italian or fellenberg ts is very choice so Is the sweet german but of the german there are two or three varieties and only the sweet or what is vulgarly called the Hag haiback back Is any good for profitable table cultivation the french petit is also good but risky for I late ate frost good prunes bring this year wholesale evaporated 8 cents a pound now for your high stony parent patently ly good for nothing bench land if you can get water on to it that is your peach land it will pay well perhaps better than any other it is also suitable for grape vines As for varieties of peaches in their seasons following each other as follows the alexander ex ander bregdon hales early mountain rose crawfords Craw fords early foster floater wheatland elberta old mixon late crawford utah orange as for profitableness they will range about as follows elberts foster early crawford about equal bregdon and utah orange next the balance close after there are dozens of other varieties the best is to leave them alone as they are subject to either one or another drawback as too late to ripen so they freeze on the trees or too early to bloom so frost nips the bloom or they are shy bearers of these classes is the salway the mea dame bretts and ac a host of others though good in other states not good here As for grape vines except you have abundant time to potter around them let them alone if you must have them the purple Da masens the black morocco the black price the flame tokay the black hamburg and wate muscat are all excellent but they must be covered or buried in winter of hardier ones the well known concord the niagara and the red agawam are all good for strawberries hood river or darks clarks seedling bismark jesse and bubach carruthe car carry rythe the day against the field for raspberries rasp berries the cuthbert and old utah or casto is the best ot of common everyday every day berry hoping these few hints may save i many a man the headache and lots of money for utah and especially I 1 for or salt lake county whereto it is applicable I 1 remain respectfully yours JOHN P SORENSEN county fruit tree Ins inspector november 19 1898 |