Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 September 1898 — World's Largest Orchard. [ARTICLE]

World's Largest Orchard.

The largest fruit plantations in the world are in Jamaica. They are owned and operated by an American company, the area of whose fruit farm is 44,000 acres. They own 28,000 acres, and the other 16,000 acres are held by them under lease, Their principal crops an. bananas and cocoanuts, and last yea> they shipped 3,000,000 bunches of bananas and 5,000,000 cocoanuts, besides other fruits to America and elsewhere, employing 12 steamers belonging to the company. Near Olden, on the Ozark mountains, in southern Missouri, there is one of the largest and finest fruit farms in the world. It consists of 2,200 acres of land, owned by a syndicate formed of the members of the Missouri Horticultural society, and on which are planted 61,000 peach, 23,000 apple and 2,000 pear trees, with forty acres in small fruits. There is an orchard at Barbara, In California, belonging to Elwood Cooper, which has an area of 1,700 acres, and contains 10,000 olive trees, 3,000 English walnut trees, 4,500 Japanese persimmon trees, 10,000 almond trees and about 4,000 other nut and various fruit trees.—Buffalo Evening Times.