Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1849-01-11
OvONrPELIEB. VERMONT, THURSDAY

Three wears after the seed is deposited, the
tree is fiom ten to fifteen feet high, and the
fourth year it bears fruit 1t is said that three
ten years old will produce on an average annu-
alIv fifteen hundred oranges. The trees are
planted at about eighteen PAGES distance from
each other and one hundred acres Will contain
not less than two thousand trees, each bearing
on an average, fifteen thousand oranges, which
et the usual rate of four dollars the thousand,
will give gross product Of twelve thousand dol
lars, and deduct the expenses of fifteen hundred
dollars for cultivatng, picking, packing and car
rying to market, you have net profit Of ten
thousand five hundred dollars on a capital OF not
more than fifteen thousand dollars. While the
cultivation of this fruit might be made very
lucrative business, only few orange orchards
are to beIfound on the island. The trees are Pun"
tod IN most of the coffee and many OF the sugaI
estotes in large numbers, as borders to the ave-
ruoa and lines of division, but the planters rarely
rather the fruit. Coffee, which at one time was
considered the most important product OF the Is
land. is now said to afford but very small per
cent. on the capital invested If not the most
productive. the coffee estates are far the most
beautiful of any, and form the greatest or'iA-
ments of the interior.
plant is about tbo c 9se Sp plant comes up !"
cut off and its height reduced to four or five feet
1t then requires to be protected from the SUM- anc
1t Is for this purpose that rows of orange. palm
panama and other trees thick foliage and large
growth are planted between those of the coffan
An extensive coffee plantation with its loDo av
enues and enclosures of orange and palm trees
Ills almost numberless lines Of coffee pIants
overshadowed by the banana and other beont;f,,l
trees, blooming in rich uxurence of perennial
vegetation, seems, at least, to verify the visions
of an earthly paradise.
Inc banana is one of the most delicious ver.
eta0e products of The island. The tree on which
the frult grows is an annual one, that rises to the
helght OF eight or ten feet, when it throws off n
cluster OF Immense leaves five or six feet lonq
by two or more broad, and in the midst Of those
leaves is found single bunch or cluster of from
forty to one hundred fruits, which are nearly six
inches long, and somewhat similar in shane TO
the common cucumber.
Tobacco, maize, cocoa and the sweet potato
appear to have originated on this island.
Tradition says they were introduced into
Mexico by the Toltec race in the seventh cen.
ury, and thence have spread over the continent
ar on Mo,.; ~ 49, 'o'"'ed BY a spon;sh ,,,.;
er on Mexico. He says: "Moize ! pan'sh "ri-
ne island OF Cuba, its name is found in ,bo 10
uage of the aboriginal inhabitants, and il :
opposed to have been introduced into Mexico
y the Toltec race. Soon after its introduction.
became the great staff of life, and was looked :
pom with a kind of religious veneration. The
Devil taking advantage of this, moved one Of /,
ne Pagan priests ut festival of the God of /
Var to make an image of the God out of the
our OF maize kneaded with the blood of human |
ctlms who had been sacrificed in war; which {
as broken in pieces, and distributed among the
eople who ate it with great generation, saying
hey were eating the flesh and bones of the God.
'hus did Satan himself ordain in Mexico COM
lunion to counterfeit the Holy Sacrament"
Sailors Magazine.