New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1853-06-28
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1 Inougn later IMAM usual, we nail WIN muCf
delight the appearance of some fine fruit in oul
market Peaches, as rich, juicy, and Fragrant
as any that may be found at the North, in tn,
month of August, may now bObought on oul
streets at reasonable rates. There are ais,
pears and apricots, and a great plenty Of deli
cious cantelopes and all other kinds of melons
This is truly delightful to us of the Can't get
Away Club, who are compelled to remain her
during the summer. As the children say, W
"can SPITE our runaway friends by lettin,
them know what luxuries we are enjoying. |
will be long time before they can have sucl
delicacies as peaches, pears and melons, AM
even when the season for them arrives, we doub
if they will have such rich and luscious fruit a:
our people can command Look at last year
when peaches could hardly be got for love OF
money at the North, we were surfeited with
them, and when several Of our ,fruiterers made
pretty speculations by sending peaches to the
Northern and Western cities. Considering how
rapidly we have advanced in the South in the
culture of fruit-how few years ago a peach
was great rarity in our city, and pears could
only be heard ofwe do not think it extrava-
giant to predict that in few years the South
erD Valley of the Mississippi will grow fruit for
| the whole Union.
On the warm bluff of the Mississippi pears
and peaches will attain richness which they
can never reach in the hardy climate of New
York and New Jersey Here they are safe from
frosts and freezes from the severe storms and
hurricanes that blow from the Atlantic With
such advantages the trees will require much
less care, and will, consequently be supplied at
cheaper rates than they can be produced at the
North The marvellous success which has at
tended the efforts Of those who have embarked
in this culture will encourage hundreds of others
to devote their labor and attention to it. Fruit
trees grow with amazing rapidity on the rich
soil of the Mississippi Valley, and in very few
years man of small means can surround him
self with fine orchard. Then, We only require
railroads to bring the growth of the orchards
to market, and transport them to Northern
Cities to fill the pockets of all our fruit-grow
Having, too, sugar, the growth of our soil on
hand, why should not the important and profit
able business of preserving fruit for expectation
be adopted and pursued by our people2
1t is general opinion of physicians that ripe
fruits are very wholesome and healthy. They
supply u slightly stimulating and nutritious
acid which, in moderation, facilitates digestion
and promotes health. 1t is certainly a notable
fact that the appearance of fruit in our markets
in any abundance has been coincident with the
disappearance of endemical diseases. Ifthis be
correct, the culture of fruit becomes an impor
tant sanitary measure for our city We hope,
anf.Y - H.
eral profits may reward all those who embark
in it,
.4Ppr0poS deS bOttes, what has become Of the
famous figs of Louisiana-no bad substitute for
peaches, when taken with cream or milk We
have seen none this season. Has some remorse-
less late frost or some desolatng insect cut. off
this supply of delicious nourishment, heretofore
so cheap, SO abundant, and SO acceptable to our
people in early summer We hope not, and vet
have we peaches before figs viii some one
favor us with an explanation of this pomolog-
cal phenomenon. Have our fg-trees been all
destroyed, or have they retired in disgust before
the formidable rivalry of peaches and nectar
ines, which presumptuously usurp their place
and crowd them out of favor and the market
We are deeply anxious and excited on this
question. Some people may not care "a fig '
about it; but by their fruit ye shall know
them,' and we regard man who does not, love
figs and is not interested to know how they are
getting on in the world as fit for treason STRAIT
egems and spoils." And though we impeael
not the taste Of those who appea, to favor those
more modern accessions to our pomucopia, we
beg to put in our protest against any attempt to
slight or gainsay the great merits of that deli
cious fruit, which is so highly regarded in Ori-
entail lands that it is sold in the markets under
the special sanction of the Holy Prophet Of
Mecca himself
In the name of the Prophet Figsl"