New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-10-17
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RIO DE JANEIEo, Aug II, 1855.
Suffer ne to infict on you gossipping letter
about sundry matters "doUn South" not exactly
| Of Mason Il Dixon's line but south Of the
| Equator.
read with interest the doiD4s aud say ings of the
Farmers Club Of the American Institute. i long
tine ago read in the report Il the meeting of My
]. 1T must have been Of last year. the following:
"Lindey says apples win flourish in all northern
countries, but are not to BE- found in any South
"crn country, except one kind in the Sandwich
Islands," | have seen apples tloprishing as finely
p The Province Of Rio De Janeiro AS | ever saw
Il I'm in w-Encand. Last January | visited N
estate up III Tie ms ul;aEs ab"ui 30 miles from this
CITY. where / saws u large number of apple trees in
very lCaltLy condition. having plenty OF half grown
aIpir, { them that month. corresponding with ycar
JUN The apple !, flat and large. resembling the
EltdcslaId grcening ia color, shape aud size. The
IRE piici,r told that ere year. ~ The suggestion of
ayisit,r BE- pchcda basket II Of these apples, each
# which measured fourteen inches, and sent them
10 tie Emperor. I he apple is called the Canada. il
being Understood that the tree came from that local
tv II grows much like our ounce. the trunk
throwing cat limbs at the distance of two feet from
the grouLd. On this -ame estate. Newtown pippins
lave been grown, but they don't flourish
AID Eere let NE add, by way Of episode that in
this saline locality in ihe Organ MUuntains the soil
produces tea coffee and the sHgar-cane. beside In
dian corn and the root from Which tapiOca is made.
Vegetables of the temperate zone grow in Ike mid-t
If tropical fruits. The corhdrds arr hordt red
with orange trees now bending Gn1rr the weight at
their golden fruit, and the tall banana wish lis
i,alc Leaf lloglishes IN the salne patch with the
u.aze.
Fat 10 return 20 Lndiey aud apples; | have al,o
.t.H IN ruauay, in the vicinity OF MOneS deO, the
applc-tree flourish and bear frU, in abundance. In
she season q fruit there are always plenty 0apples
of native growth III the market of Montevideo. |
have the testimony OF my eyes to tlIe sct that
apples are ouna IN two logalitIes south IF the
Equatcr, hctice The Sal dw ich Islands.
ad zen d. covered ia Brazil thar the eai OF the
o, fee tree possessed the same q,utie. as te bean
its.lf. / have GA several occasions inquired rs 10
experiments on this subject, and no one lss hearN
oi them. Vi thr statement were yerlffs'' iart
il would be- practically of n, value. II n "err
proved that the leaves Of apple trees pr0porl'
cur. d. would mike tolcrahy good pies, Row mnt
r4sp,, DO you think would 60 into the Leaf "sinrS'
Tie Ct fre-iree bears most pshtliully. ait the pre-
potion OF the fruit to the le,rs Is great sp tir'h III
he aPrlc-trce. .. -
oronire il will bc tried in some of orr >ss,thern
Sfatcs. II grows here best the mountain sides,
IN rather - dry soil, and appears c"nPifatNelL
hardy. The vile Of our recent consul Scott VINO
In, a plantation in Alal sH'a, took some !ourg
G, Gte-plant. with her when she return ed home ma
rltoftuat,ly The, I'll dsi Cn the passage. 1t /,
N, IMPRESSED slI, took seeds withher.. ani ",il
make he experiment. Che trinl ought 10 be ipdde
in various l,c9itics for II j. valuable produce, oi
,g-y culture, aud the nrcParauon tor market re-
cures no h =.
= he anocst " stem of bnlancfr, the hall bushei
Of orair hv putting ,tone in the mouth oil The bag
/, of en- Illustrated by the agrwa'urIsts vi south
nerca For sxsrsVle. the sOh that - suitable for
ma ~, i iii aso Cor. maGdlcca. One farmer ras''
nothing LWt maa ,oea. his nest neishbor grow.
only uu'ze. L nave repeatedly asked when
citp Wa, lie mcst profitable, and non 'dy
c,uld tell ne. ] his man ralscs nE,rdloca because
il las awayS h. en- raised ol The place: int man
afoW, mt.Ze bee ause il has al~a!, been grown on
the pSce } sre asked il It would NOT De more
pr, tlic to 81 ,ngg she crop. aud have Dtth r'Plrl
"a with 10th Of profound astoni'hnenI' a. "
wtrc h'niing tireasOn.
et liz IL ale an instance 81 the TRIUMPH vi Tue
American Pl" y up he Riode ia Plata. An AMERICAN
~ IN Entr' Ric, j. culiiyatiug a large farm ON
clsillcd prl Icslc.. II is wheat Growing country
ayd lc had field of that grain immediately along
side Of one ltlunging Ia SpaDlsh negio"r' Inc
YANKEE h d poned decp the ~panlard h1d i4''
scratched the surface usual with wooded III,
siruncni. 4 severe drought was experienced; sni
wlrn ;teo SpaniaTd wheat was all dried up th,
lantcc'S Was green and aourishu z. One @athe 90
rich Ar.t>t: The other scarcely the seed re hau
sown. II lCOsrd like a miracle aud II was Ju''
that soIt IT usr,clc that intelligence and Skin are
consta' l:iy v"-.iug IA the midst Oi ignorance III"
siup. y. J. ;.