Loudon free press. (Loudon, Tenn.) 1852-1855, 1853-03-05
AGRICULTURAL.
E,on, tie Horficultralist.

FRUITS as. INTENPERANCE.-The grand miss
ion of the horticulturalist, in subduing, cutiva-
waiting, and embellishing the earth-of render
ing the outward world a Paradise garden of
beauty and delight, las the word Paradise liter
ally imports is as yet but little understood and
appreciated in all its length, and breadth, and
glory, by even its most distinguished apostles
and earnest and enthusiastic devotees. For it
shall be his Office in the coming age, not only to
transform the face of nature, and through the
hints and suggestions every where given him by
the Divine Creator, to deduce order and beauty
from the surrounding chaos, but to have very
important and powerful influence upon the life
and culture, the health and happiness of man.
The civilization of man, and that of the earth
indeed, always go hand in hand, and each act
upon, and advances the other. BY the greater
abundance and Improvements of grains and veg
etables, and especially by the increase of vari-
GUS and luscious fruits very striking change
is to be made for the better, in the manner of
human living; in the regimen and nourishment
of the human body, and hence, in the purity ac-
tivity and beautiful development of mind and
soul. How much more poetical, how much
more refined and elevated, as we'll as beautiful
and exhilerating, is a table glowing with the
various melting and luscious fruits in their sea-
son-the dewy, delicious strawberry, the fra
grant raspberry, the ruby cherry, the tempting
Raradisean nectar of peach and apricot, plum
and pear, and the glorious clusters of the rich
and juicy grape, with the cooling and refresh
ing waters of cantelOpe and mellon, accompa-
MED Dy simple farinaceous articles of diet, than
O. board covered with the flesh of beasts, how
ever delicately cooked, and with various spiced,
unnatural, and unholy mixtures of cake, pastry,
&c. Think of father Adam slaughtering an OK
IN Paradise, or the delicate fingers of his fair
and gentle partner, dripping with the fat of
roast spare-rib, as her divine features become
scorched and empurpled over a blazing fire.
We believe, most fully, from personal expert
ence, as well as observation, that an abundant
use of fruits has strikingly delightful and ele-
waiting influence upon the animal spirits, as well
as upon the mind and soul; that the constant
habit of employing fruits will cure many diseas-
es, and have a most beneficial effect upon the
health of the individual, and the race; and
PROVE, next to air and water, the greatest of all
preventive indictments. Indeed, as for our
selves personally, through spring and summer,
autumn and winter, our breakfast is made al
most exclusively of fruits. These we will have,
and using no other luxury, we think we have a
right to use them at any cost AT the same
time, we feel it to be high and holy duty, which
we owe to the race, to do all in our power to
render fruit so abundant and cheap as to fall
within the means Of our poorest brother, and
gladden., with its nutritious and eXhilarating
juices, every child in the land. We do not labor
merely that this princely merchant and that
lordly nabob, shall have his table loaded with
"choice specimen but that every man, woman,
and child, month in and month out, should rev.
ell in these delicious and healthful luxuries, till
they become the cheapest Of common necessi-
ties. And let the true friend of our noble art
but do his duty, and this can and will be ac-
complished.
We even go so far as to believe, that such a
blessed consummation would do more than
aught beside to Danish dram drinking, wine
bibbing, and intemperance, from the land. For
these habits are to be attributed in the main, to
a craving for the sparkling and exhillarating
juices, the grateful and healthful acids contain
ed in the fruits. And the truth of this state
ment will be evident, if we consider that prin-
cipally, from the juices of fruits, come all our
various wines, exhilarating liquors, and in
toxicating beverages. 1t was one of the meth
DDS early taken to lengthen out and perpetuate
the season of fruitage. The less abundant Of
fruits were dried in ovens, or hung up in the
solar rays, and the juices were expressed from
the more prolific and plentiful varieties. AS
from the apple, cider; from the pear, perry; from
the grape, wine and brandy; and hence, elder
wine currant wine, &c. At first, indeed, this
method was employed only on limited scale,
in the very season fruits, and the juicy clus-
tiers of the grape were pressed into the crystal
or golden goblet, as we now squeeze the orange
and the lemon for our delicious orangeade, or
the cooling sherbut of lemons. AS we read in
holy writ, II took the grapes and pressed them
into Pharaoh's cup, and gave the cup into Pha-
raoh's hand" Genesis XI, H. Gentlemen,
indeed, in the constant habit of employing wine
and liquors, say to US, "Oh! with such fruits as
these, should soon give up all relish for drink
ing" Let us make the various delicious fruits
so plentiful, as to be within the reach of every
man, even the poorest and the humblest, and
we shall do more for the cause of temperance,
and truly good living, than all the Maine liquor
laws and temperance lectures in the world; for
we shall thus destroy utterly, the corrupted ard
perverted tastes of men, aud restore them to the
original, beautiful and wholesome simplicity of
nature. JAMES RICHARDSON. JR.
Greenfield, Mass, July, 1852.
Cork BREAD.-A Nep Recipe-Every
body who has been at the Mansion House.
Buffalo, has learned the luxury of the far-famed
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