Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1843-04-01
FRUITS IN THE SOUTH. &c.

Fhbt45 Az ~ SUI Il tE1
Messrs. Editprss-in p~erufing an article
written by the interchangeable J. y. s., in the
last number of Hoyey's as Magazine Of Hor-
tlCuItuFc,' which aofne friend Iaa Ind the
Kindness to forward me, aud which deserves
more circulation among us than it now re-
eeipeR, | ind d home-thruat at Us who live
- south Of Mason Il Dixou's line" ] should
love 10 be able to deny the facts but am
sorry TO say, there is too much truth in it
to make a joke off" He says, i" it il by no
means uncommon to find in the South, large
estates without a single choice pear or paja.
table apple IN them" True TO the letter,
and especially in the South.W estern States,
where we find hundreds of acres of cotton,
with not more than the uecesaaries~-sntne,
with scarcely even milk and butter, How,
then, could We expect /" choice pear CT pal
atabla applet" Indeed, one who turns his
attention in the 'east to those matters In
bectered by all around hin,--and if be cult.
Yates a flower, especially if he take a haad out
OF the crop to ass.st, he 10 set down Us not
smart!
There has been a slight excuse for this ne
g'ect but it is very slight one--for, although
we may not have felt ourselves as residents.
but merely as sojourners here, We might
certainly have been influenced by that com
niaDd, to "loye our nctehbors as ourselves"
and 10 have planted something that p~osierity
might reap the fruits Of. II 10 An excuse that
makes the matter really worse and | am in
cjIned 10 say the excuse is, We did not think
of it. :" 1t was not my design to write any
Thing like" finding more fault but that |
might put your readers in mind Of duty they
really owe TO those who must follow after
them--a duty arising from self interest, if no
patriotism existed. Let every individual at
once plant some fruit trees and even should
they not live to see them come into bearing,
or should take UP their march north, south,
east or west, even should there be no real adj
vance in price Of property, it WILL hesitate
not to believe, cause his property to sell rea-
der for who is there who would not prefer
a farm, with fruit trees thereon, to one with.
out?
The fact is, the whole southwest have
been chasing a Pickering phantom more un-
real than "Jack-o'-the lanthern." They have
been fondly dreaming, as the alchvnis1s If
old, that they could III a very short time change
labor TO gold, by which all the varieties and
Of life could he possessed, as it were
by some feat, Ike the favored characters in
AiS Afioldj 4sigHis uut IEdfAY lids no"
or rather taken possession Of her
hrone, and we now know that - make for
tunes, requires years Ct patient enduring toll,
with economy and good management. We
have now learned the sober truth. that we
are citizens Of the country We have selected;
and it becomes US as men, to look on the
matter without any sort of repfning, but obey
he behest. We are now settled in the South
w est and any man who nosP, hesitates to
and TO plant as he should do, can
have no possible excuse !; and if he has not
he means to improve well, let him show a
mind aud do something for there is
not Que solitary farmer or mechanic i'll the
limits of our State, who cannot Go something
in the way Of not only improving his farm, but
mind aud his heart. | would suggest, for
this purpose, that each farmer subscribe TO
some agricultural work, which ran be deHe
an expense Of one to three dollars Per wear,
and form little clubs in each neighborfioed, 70
over their experience in farming matters,
and such like, and IN addition, TO ex-
change freely the benefits of seeds, plants,
&c. &c. in their passcssioa-sHl4ch will be
in fact the very object aimed a., by larger as
zociations. as Agricultural Or horticultural
Societies. We have energy and industry
sufficient. if rightly placed ; we do cultivate
land enough to produce crops e4s1i 10 any