Des Moines courier. ([Ottumwa] Iowa) 1848-1854, 1852-07-08
VOL. ~.
Agricultural.
Utility of Fruits.

IL IL all uCllsHuul-llleIe Is no uFpaTt'
ment more pleasing or useful than Fruit
Growing; and our advantages, in 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, luxurian, foliage, and rich and
gorgeous crops, are among tie most or
namen,al scenery.
Good fruit is great luxury, in which
we may feel INDUCED, no, only with i'm
pnnity, but with advantage as to health
as well as pleasure. IL forms whole.
som substance, and lessons The excessive
use of various articles of diet, tho too
frequent use of which tends TO innama-
tons. fever dyspepsia, constipation, apo
plexy, govt, jaundice, and host Of other
ills. In numerous instances, violent dis
eases, aud almost hopeless cases of chron.
ic complaints. have yielded TO the con.
slant use Of fruits.
The vas, amount Of unhealthy meals
from the sudden change OF filthy matters
,oslaugherd animals, and by far too lib
eral consumption of those that are good;
also of fine flour, and fine hot bread, of
butter, cheese, fat, oils, strong tea and
coffee, (all injurious in excess, )the high
state of cookery; the free use Of condi-
ments and seasoning, and various rich
dishes, and compounds commingled, and
confused; all call aloud for more fruit TO
lessen their use, or palliase their effects,
and save the ihoughlless from unlimely
graves, or from lingering out wretched
state of existence. Fruits havea cooling
and gentle laxative effect, regulating the
stomach and bowels, correcting bilious
affections, alternating and purifying the
blood, which is the very life Of the whole
system.
We have many excellent fruits. How
delightful. refreshing, and salutary are
strawberries and cream; or delicious cher.
re., ready to burst with their juice; and
golden apricot, with its fine flavor: the
plum. with its honeyed juice; the splen-
did peach, with lis luscious sweetness;
the melting pear, with its rich, sugary,
or vicious flavor, the, apple in all its va
riety and excellence, and muliilarlous
preparations, extending from one end Of
the year to the other; the rich luscious
grape; and others equally as delicious
the currant, raspberry, gooseberry, black
berry, whortleberry. mulberry, cranberry
and the high.scen,ed ounce in its con-
served state: all excellent, and conducting
largely to health, pleasure, sustenance,
aud happiness. They add charm TO So
cial life. affording a delightful treat to
friends, and TO children constant HARM
less feast. As social entertainment,
thew serve as grateful substitute for the
once ruinous cup, thus having power
full moral influence. Every fruit tree is
silent preacher in the cause of temper
ance, formidable ally in morality, reli-
gion, and philanthropy, for lusciousness
of fruits, and the beauty of their atten.
dan. scenery furnishes an Eden, where
one may sit under his own vine and fruit
trees, with none 10 modest, and no ser
pen. 10 beguile, Blu. with an Eve. as
Gods last best gift, and perhaps cherubs
gamboling in his Elysian grounds as SO
many multiplied exis,ences in which he
lives and revels amidst the charms oil
nature and munifcence Of heaven, in the
happy resuls Of his own skill ard indus
trv, and faith in Him who gives the seed.
time and harvest. Teach children the
ar, and science of horticulture and
pomology. and you will improve and ex-
alt 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, amids. the varied charms Of ma
ture and art, this faithful monitor reverts
10 the dearest scenes of childhood and
youth, where once were.
"My father, my mother
My sister, my brother,
And dear 4 y, more charming than all.