Nashville daily patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1855-1857, 1856-08-19

county win form a rich and VARIABLE source Of
wealth as Improvements progress
Wild ffuits of hIsny KINDS are found in great pro-
fusion The wild plumb with its thousand varieties
ripening from the early part Of May to the middle
Of July, il valuable and is now cultivated as sta.
pie fruit Of the season. The grape and mulberry
native TO the soil and grow luxuriantIy; ndicat
ing that vine and silk, wen cotton and tobac-
co, win in time become valuable staples-the dwarf
plumb bush which rarely exceeds thirty inches in
heghth, bending under its weight Of yellow snd
vermion fruit is really an interesting sight and
quite curiosity-the fruit is only valuable for hogs
which gather it il rpens aud falls to the ground
the blackberry, dewberry, whortleberry, and
gooseberry are common and plenty.
Many Of the beautiful exotic flowers, vines and
cFeepers, cultivated IN the hot houses and gardens
OF the North and East, are here seen in their ma
tive wildness; some adorning the earth with grace
and LONELINESS, Others climbing the taest trees, and
mngling the comeiness of Flora, with the rich foil.
age OF the torest-another, seemingly endowed with
adispostion different from most things in nature
covers with its close embrace the rugged face of
desoation, and conceals beneath its rich and shin
ing mantle, the ravages made by the hand of time
the wreck which the tempest wrought-it clings
to and beauties the decaying trunk Of the monarch
OF the woods, standing ruin in the midst of YER
dure ia gterDg aud fnciful fesIoons it throws out
Its thousands Of gaudy trumpet flowers as a coronal
OF beauty to fallen grea ness
The passion flower, in whose emblematc petals
the devoted Catholic sees symbOlized the passion
and death Of CUR Savior, here finds its Dstive soil
The shrinking mimosa or sensitive plant an object
OF so much interest to the naturalist and pboso-
pher, is also Dative-and the traveller trampling
over its dropping aud apparently withered leaves
looks back in vain for the path his rude footsteps
had marked OUT not vestige of the invasion re-
Mains but all again is life and verdure The honey.
suckle, hyaeinth, jonqul, and daffodil are thrown
together in most admirable disorder, and with the
wild weeds ofthe wilderness weave themselves into
carpet OF rich and varied beauty. The rose ''the
queen of beauty" claims the latest though not the
least consideration in this extended notice Of the
wild flowers OF the county-they are of many va
rieties, from the purest white to the deepest carnA-
tiOn-One only Of these can notice, and this one
is perpetually blooming, even through the long dry
summer months, without the aid or interference Of
man, and seems TO defy his art to introduce rival
to its owniuuparalleled beauty-the common wild
rose; luxurant that it bursts spontaneously into
blushing life, sometimes browning the hoary rock
with blooming garland and some time struggling
with the matted weeds of the wilderness yet ever
finding its way to the open day, that it may basE
and smile with thankfuDess to the bright sun with,
out whose rays its cheek would know no beauty
and its bloom no fragance-booming in the barren
waste this lovely flower Is seen unfolding its fair
leaves where there is no beauty to reflect its own
and thus calling back tothe heart OF the weary trave-
Ter, thoughts of peace and JOY, reminding him that
the wldness of human life, though rugged and bar
rem to the diseontended beholder has also its sweet
flowers, not the less welcome for being unlocked
for, nor the less lovely for being cherished BY a
hand unseen.