Weekly national intelligencer., 1850-10-19
MIGRATION OF FRUITS AND FLOWERS.

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70 the Old World more than he has received. He
is more entcrprising from the very freedom OF his
institutions and, therefore, he will improve what
ever he touches, and add new things to the old.
The New World is full of beautiful flowers, and
new 70 the nations of the Old. How much, for ex-
ample, has been done in the propagation of the
dahllas alone, the favorite flower of autumn The
American too, goes to all parts of the earth our
navy spreads her canvass into every sea. Our of.
fcers and our travellers should think it point of
duty to bring back to their own country new seeds
and roots of the choicest flowers and fruits that may
grow at home.-Union.
Erfract from an address of E. d. MANSFIELD,
Esq, before the Cincinnati Horticultural Soeie-
fy, deiUered October 4, 1850.
We may that the migration Of plants has accompanied
the migration of civilized This diffusion and natura
zaon Of plants native to land other lands evidence
that man himself has emgraed and that In the colonization
he has become improved and civilized II is remarkable how
completely parallel the Of the vegetable with the
human race in this mode omproyemen One may think that
is natural for any in going from country to another
to take, a. r as Posbe the species Of plants which he is
accustomed with him. But it is Savage never
does il and even sem-cvilzed do not. Il is only
when communities advanced in intelligence have great
merc and, by industry, have accumulated the Of ga
yng tastes that they have ranspanted the members of the
vegetable kingdom nauraized them in soil and collect
in great gardens, numbers and varieties. Thus the m
grafton and improvement Of plants become conclusive evil
dsnce Of the migration and improvement Of The pro-
Of improvement is very different. Labor care, cu
turs tainng engrafing. nourishDg and pruning
csssary BOTH The wild olive and the wild require
the diligence training before they reach excellence
one could write the history of the migration of plants
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ing, nsrucng, and entertaining chapters written It
would show the fruit and flowers emerging like himself
from Central Asia-folowng the Euphratcs the coasts Of
Arabs and the isles Of the seapursung the footsteps of
civilization taking hues in climes-snd like man.
improved by colonization and by culture. We should see
in lsier period, the New World rendering back its tribute
the Old We should find the plants and flowers which
ative the Potomac, the Mississippi and the ANA
zon, filing the gardens of Europe with bloom, and
feeding millions who, but for hem could have lived
And may see, In this returning tide Of products from the
New World ymbocal representation Of that tide of light
and bdy which shall flow from the western continent to the
land Of the Orient
Let notice. illustration of this principle, the mga
ton of of the most known plants. To begin with flow
Tie tube brought from the East Indies where
it grows wild in Java and Ceyon. The full tube were
first raised from seed Leyden and have since formed quite
artice Of traffic. The imperial brought in the
sixteenth century from Persia to Constantinope, carried
thence to Vienna and dispersed Europe. The Per-
sian lily nearly related it, was brought from Suza to Con-
staninple,
The African and French mhrsods were supposed to have
been bought from Africa in the time Of Charles v, but
| really Iative to Peru, in South America.
The Guernsey lily brought from Japan. ship re-
turning from Japan wrecked the coast of Guernsey,
where he bulbs took root and whence it bears its
Of tie genus of the ranunculus, there said
to be than thousand different kinds but the principal
part Of them, and those esteemed, brought from
Asia emigration took place at the time Of the Crusades
They sent to Constannope by the officers of the Sui
tan fom thence they carried Marsees and dis
persedover Europe.
The amarylls formosisima came from South America,
whence brought by De Tovar physician, and there
| it wassubsequently found to be Indigenous.
night continue this list Of emigant flowers an ndef
mite een and in every country Of high civilization the for
egn towers will probably be found the most In
this country deeply indebted to the southern portion Of
this continent. Unless am mistaken Of the finest
modem flowers exhibited here have come from South America
Of the family Of the cac the finest have originated
in MEXICO, Guatemala and the central provinces Over
great part that country they to be the dominant plant
the tetOry which this plant Indigenous, is unseemly
and unpsetendng but under the of the tropics
bursts forth into Of the most various, brilliant and Curl
ous flowers which has ever been given to
Let turn from flowers to fruits The apricot native
Of Armenia.
The plum although found wild in this country supposed
to have originated in Asia. One variety (he damascene)
took its name from Damascus, the Syrian city.
rope and this country.
The neciane also native of Persia, introduced into
England in the sixteenth century.
Cherries said from Cerasus, city Of Ponus,
whence Luculus brought them after the Mithrdatic
They extended wherever the Romans spread their and
were introduced into England in the first century.
The mulberry is native Of Persia, whence it intro
duced into Europe about the sixteenth century.
The APPLE ounce and vine natives Of many countries
and it is that they belong specially to any
This review however, shows that Of the finest and most
delicious of all fruits originated in Persia, Armenia, and
other parts of ASIA whence they have been transpaned
natuazed and improved by culture under the auspices Of
civilization.
Let look little further into the important branches
of agriculture How stands the origin and propagation of
the grains and grasses by which and animals
tained
Prior to the fifteenth century, barley and wheat almost
the only grains in through Europe Asia All of
the most important articles Of vegetable food known to our
day unknown prior to the sixteenth century The
maize, or Indian corn native Of America, unknown to
Europe or Asia till introduced from this country yet in the
course of two three centuries has been introduced
throughout the Old World wherever the climate is not too
cold The potato another article Of vegetable food orgi
mating America and probably the most universal article Of
food used.
Buckwheat is native of Northern Asia, and cereal
plant although cassed among them 1t was introduced into
France in the sixteenth century, and became the food
of the common people, need not add other illustrations of
the principle that the migration Of plants has attended the
migration Of men, and, like that of men, has improved their
condition, and teen of the Of advancing cviza
ton is beautiful law Of social nature that man, the
wanderer his struggles for better condition n his labor
for subsistence; in his search after higher pleasure in bis
very exile from the lost garden duses in all regions b.
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