New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1846-02-19
FruIts md Fruir Trees.

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Fruits and Fruit Trees.
Passing through the village of Flushing, famous
for It's Nursery Gardens, some weeks since, we
learned with pleasure that the business there pre-
dominant is very rapidly extending on every hand.
The demand for young Fruit and Shade Trees, for
cuttings of the Vine, &c &c. has 30 greatly In
creased on every hand that and extensive plots
of ground have recently been planted and still the
demand for Trees presses hard upon the means Of
supply. A friend engaged in gardening at Brook
Ign casually remarked, time since, that all the
Vine plants cuttings in this vicinity not equal
TO the demand for them, aud that those set out are
usually year too young for that sing lie reason Of
course, the Nursery men IRE reaping fair rewards
for their outlay and industry.
Yet the number Of Trees and Vines hitherto plant
cd is no where in this country onefourth what il
ought 10 be and must be. Where land is so cheap
aud abundant ia with Us, it is shame that single
dwelling out of the great cities is destitute of its
Vines and Fruit Trees. Fruit is the cheapest, the
most palsiable, and, used in moderation and at pro-
per seasons, one OF the most wholesome articles Of
food. A days toll will procure n cart.load of it,
where the bargain is struck directly with mother
tho produc, of days labor for hundredth part tho
quantity. single acre. judicously devoted 10
trees and vines, will furnish onefour.h of the food
Of pretty large family, without requiring three
days labor of that family in the year. while its daily
fare is rendered much more varied, healthful and
desirable by this element. No familyis rich that
il can properly afford TO be without fruit Of its
growing; none ought to be so poor to remain
destitute OF it.
Our food is notoriously too gross and unvaried-
Stop at country tavern, in q region where the
choicest fruit grows almost spontaneously if allowed
TO, and you will be regaled on tough steak rusty
bacon for breakfast, with bread chats what they
Gull i) and $3.50 coffee For dinner, meat again
probably portland for supper bread and butter
with cold meat or smoked beef Our average farm.
crs fare is no better. Now all aware that this s
wrong-that animal food ought to be eaten sparugly,
especially In the warm season. and that for children
and others who do not perform much rugged labor,
itwere better eaten seldom il at all. But all must
ent 10 live, and if they can't obtain the best they
must eat such as they can get. The first mistake
made Is that OF forgetting that Fruits truly food
Half the people eat them at other than meal-times
often in the evening-when they IRE positively
hurtful. Nothing is wholesome when nothing is
needed But fruits, properly prepared, in due va
riety and season, would be preferred to meats
by twothirds Of the human family if they had fair
chance 10 become acquainted with them. And i'm
mense is the waste Of life and health which would
prevented by general infusion of fruits into the
common die, of our people Blu, this can never he
done until Fruit Culture is rendered fsr more gen.
eral and thorough among us, so thu. each dwelling
IN l. IA h.,
Peach and Plum Trees Grape Vines &c. and every
month, both OF summer and winter. have its abund.
ant supplies of fresh or preserved fruits. The wise
and phlanthropic must help to extend the taste for
these blessings among the poor and improvident.
We wish 1t were possible 10 Undue every man.
bu, especially every young man. with the desire Of
having HOME OF his own--a home TO be adhered to
through life. Next to the home itself an earnest,
overriding desire for one would be great blessing
There are few vigorous young of fair capacities
who have no, missed opportunities TO save the
Of cottage and piece Of ground by the time they
are respectively twenty years of age After that
with family growing up, it generally seems and
often 10 impossible TO save the first dollar. But
within mile of US there are thousands of young
men now in restitution cursing their hard employ.
era orkard fortune who have already squandered in
idleness and dissipation the cost of such homestead
Many have fooled it away on theatres, liquors and
tobacco aono. We know thai there is another side
to this picture-that the Poor safer much that they
cannot avoid, ye; which might be cbvia,cd Let us
consider both sides always But the deplorabe fac,
that thousands who might hare been in comfortable
circumstances are sadly otherwise should be special
~ pressed upon the regard of the rising geuera,ion
we wish our Mechanics Clerks &c. would every
where take TO heart the importance of owning
Home; we hope our young Farmers and Artisans
of the Country will stcadfastly regard it. A man
who owns the roof that shelters him and the so;l
from which he draws his subsis,euce-sna ssw
acres are requisite for that-need not envy snv Ma.
bob's great fortune. The country mechanic who
owns his CO, and his fertile is well of especial
" IL the latter be studded with tru3trees Blu, our
landholders aleo ought to see the advantage of
planting tress vigorously and continually. a house
and lot xhere the lsnd is too costly ought never
to be considered complete without, lis trees any
more than though the house were without roof
place well stocked with fruit trees is worth lar
more then without them and will rent for more
Young men! plant for your ripper years and your
chhcren; old men! plant for posteriry and with q
lsudable anxiety to leave the world something bet
ter for your living in it. He who leaves to those
who survive him only few trees cannot be said TO
: have lived wholly in vain.