Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1849-06-08
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Utility Of Fruit.


In the whole routine Of culiiyation--and
il is all delighifal-there is no depa men,
more pleasing or useful than Fruit 6 owing I;
aud our advantages, 10 this country, for
its production, are varied and extensive
With due attention. we can have great
variety Of the most delicious fruits and the
trees with their beautiful bloom, luxuriant
foliage, and rich aud gorgeous crops are
among the most ornamental scenery.
Good fruit is great luxury. ia which we
may freely indulge. not only with impuniiy,
but with advantage as 10 health a. well as
pleasure. II forms wholesome susienance,
and lessons the excessive use Of various ar
iicles Of diet. the too free use Of which tends
to inaammations. spoplexy, dyspepsia, fevers.
constipation. jaundice, govt, aad host Of
other ills. In numerous instances, violent
diseases, and almost hopeless cases Of chron-
&c complaints, have yielded TO the constant
use OF fruits.
The vast amount Of unhealthy meats, from
the sudden change offil,hy matters to slaugh-
tered animals, aud by far too liberal con-
sumption OF those that are good also OF
fine -four, and fine hot bread, OF butter,
cheese, fat. oils, strong tea and coffee, (al in
furious in excess, the high state Of cookery,
The free use OF condiments and seasoning,
and various rich dishes aud compounds,
commingled. and confused; all call aloud
for more fruit to lessen their use, or paliale
their effects and save thoughtless beings
from uniimely graves, or from lingering
out wretched state Of existence. Fruits
have cooling and gently laxative effect, re-
gulating the stomach and bowels, correcting
bilious affections, and alternating and puri.
flying the blood, which is the very life Of the
whole system.
We have many excellent fruits. How
delightful, refreshing and salutary are straw
berries and cream; or delicious cherries,
ready to burst with their rich juice; the
golden apricot, with its fine flavor; the plum
with its honeyed juice; the melting pear.
with lis rich, sugary or vinous flavor; the
apple, in all its variety and excellence, and
multilarious preparations, extending from
one end Of the year to the other the rich
luscious grape and others equally delicious
the currant, raspberry, gooseberry, black
berry ,whorileberry, cranberry and mulberry.
and The high-scented ounce in its conserved
stale; all excellent aud conducting largely
to health. pleasure, sustenance and hsppI-
ness. They add charm TO social life, az
fording delightful trea, to friends. and to
children a constant aud harmless feast As
social entertainment, they serve as CRATE
fol substitute for the once ruin9qs cup, thus
fruit tree is silent preacher in the cause Of
temperance. formidable ally in morality,
religion and philanthropy for the luscious
ness Of fruits, aud the beauty Of their attend
ant scenery, furnish an Eden, where one
may sit under "his own vine and 6g tree"
with none to modest. and no serpent 10 be-
guile but with an Eve, as Gods last, best
gift, and perhaps cherubs gambling in his
Elysian grounds, as so many multiplied ex-
istences in which he lives and revels amidst
the charms Of nature and munihcence Of
heaven, in the happy results Of his own skill
and industry, and faiih in Him who gives
seed-time and harvest.
Teach children the art and science OF hor-
ticulture and pomology and you will improve
and exalt them; you will train them up in
the way they should go. and spread around
home the strongest endearments Of social
life, 10 which the memory will cling with
the fondest recollection, while "breath they
draw" for though roaming the wide world
amidst the varied charms Of nature and art,
this faithful monitor reyerts to the dearest
scenes Of childhood and youth, where once
we're
any father, my mother,
My sister, my brother
And dear $50, more charming than all"
Cote's Fruit Book.