Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1847-09-30
VERMONT PHOENIX.
BrsttIeboro, Thursday, Sept. 80, lS47.
4 Chad nith our snbseribers.

In all this month, is said to be the best season
for budding, setting out and transplanting trees,
grapes, strawberries and other yines--and yet
there appears to be very little of It doing Our
farmers and villagers, We apprchcnd, arc not
aware how much land they leave barren, which
might easily be made productive and profitable,
The waste ground about every village and
farmhouse is capable of yielding fruit and veg
tables sufficient, besides supplying the family to
nav the interest on the value Of the land yet
very few cultivate enough even for their own
use. Why is this? Vines and fruit trees grow
almost spontaneously, and require little care
Plant the vine by the side Of your fences, upon
ground useless for other purposes, and distgurcd
perhaps with weeds, and in two or three years
it will creep up over your fence or upon
friendly tree, and furnirh you delicious fruit
Build an arbor Of trcllis-work over the walk
leading from the street to your house, and in the
anne time the vine will form shaded and beau
tiful avenue, ornamcnted with clusters Of grapes.
II will cover the side of your barn or other out
house, occupying no valuable ground, and taxing
YOU only an hours labor 10 put up frame to
support Il. Afew peach-siones saved and plant
ed in the fall will produce you in the spring n
nursery Of peach treesi transplant these in the
corners Of YOUR fences, or other vacant ground,
and in few years you will have an abundance
of peaches. SO with apples and other fruits
Il only requires hand to plant them in the
proper season, and they will afterwards mostly
take care Of themselves. A rod square of ground
in the garden, set out with strawberry roots this
fall, will furnish supply Of berries for your la
bic next summer and little attention Of the
same kind will soon bring you every fruit and
vegetable adapted to the climate.
An this may be accomplished withou, labor or
expense, and without encroaching upon time de-
voted to your regular business. A half or quar-
ter of an hour per day for a week, taken from
the early morning or twilight, viii suffice, and
reciprocal interchAnges with your neighbos will
furnish the plants and vines. The care and at
tention required will be only an agreeable re-
taxation from other business, and will be repaid
an hundred fold.
There is scarcely village lot in Bratileboro
that is not capable of producing more fruits and
vegetables than is wanted for one faniily's use
and requiring 30 little attention, too, that il
should rather be called amusement than labor.
Why, then, are so many lots and gardens left
unimproved? Is il not because we negligcntly
suffer tho proper time to pass away, or docs it
arise from n selfshncss which deters US from
planting lest We may not live to harvest? Nei-
Their supposition woull be complimentary to us,
but we arc inclined to attribute il ALL to that old
thief "I'rocyusiinasica" lie is an arrant old
villain, and docs more mischief in his way than
all other blaek-legs in the country together. The
other day, be cheated n neighbor Of ours out Of
thousand dollars by inducing him to postpone
the renewal of policy Of insurance for one day
afier il expircd-in the meantime, the building
burned. A friend Of ours made a large sum Of
money in the recent rise Of proyiions-he had
large quantity on hand, and prudence admon-
shed him 70 scii; but old -Irocruunofon- came
along, and silly whispered in his car that prices
would be higher tomorrow, and he keptit The
next day prices suddenly fel, and our friend
was ruined. We suspect that, il the truth was
known, the same smoo,h-tongued rascal is the
cause Of the neglect TO cultivate the grounds
about village and country houses He is always
Tor waiting till "io-msrror,- lie never objects
TO any thing being done, but he advises TO ,raii
httc--wait till 80 morrotr," "fomorror'-but
tomorrow never comes.
If the month Of September and the early part
of October is not improved to set out vines and
trees, il cannot be done till the spring, and in
the spring there is only three or four weeks
within which TO do it. Now-to-day, if you have
a spare hour, it may be done-do it You know
not what cares tomorrow may bring with it; the
present You are sure Of; do not suffer old "lPro-
erastiHaiion" to cheat you out of it.
Our subscribers in this county should rcmcm-
ber that in short unexpectedly within year
railroads leading directly to Boston and New
York will be completed.to this village. Brattle-
boro will then be only four or five hours ride
from Boston, and we shall be as convenient to it
as people living within twelve or fifteen miles,
who have no such facility. We shall be able to
compete with them in the fruit and vegetable
.A"f ~ VI ASt'otoh tDt ui1cftncc. N
in the cost of transportation, win be more than
compensated by the difference in the cost of land.
We desire to impress upon our subscribers the
new and profitable trade that is to be opened to
them by the railroad TO Boston, so that they
may be preparing to take advantage of it Land
in the neighborhood of Boston is worth for pur-
poses of cultivation, from one to five hundred
dollars per acre, and this is chiefly owing to the
constant market for garden fruit and vegetables
The same market will be opened to people in
the country who have railroad communication.
although they live an hundred miles from the
city.
Upon all the roads now built, cars are placcd
exclusively for fruits and vegetables, and farm
ers all along the railroad are entering LARGELY
into their cultivation. In the city, every thing
for the table always finds a ready sale, and gen.
orally at high pricesi and many large families
in the ncghborhood of the city are supported bv
the cultivation of less than half acre of land
There are many, also, who from the product of
gape-Vines that run along their fences or over
their walks or out-houses, realize thirty and