trees-anything

Updated: May 16, 2025

One after another these wildcat irrigation schemes, purporting to assure sudden wealth in apples, pears, celery, garden truck, cherries, small fruits, alfalfa, pecans, eucalyptus or catalpa trees-anything you liked went to the wall. Sometimes whole communities became straitened by the collapse of these overblown enterprises.

Emerson Hough - The Passing of the Frontier; a chronicle of the old West