Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1859-05-12
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session in New York, and in consequence, the
papers there are filled with long winded reports
of what this that and the other isH-ite, of some
sort said We notice good thing, however,
from the lips of VIM. H. Fry, brother of 'Emi-
ly's" husband, in the shape of piquant speech
at the "Floral fete ut Palace Gardens" Fry was
brought on the stand BIZ John Cochrane-Eound
himself much surprised and embarrassed-so
he said, in consequence of being called to speak
on two subjects, he didn't understand, viz hor-
ticuIture and valuable girls"
He had never raised any flowers, fruits or
vegetables, and therefore knew nothing about
them except at dinner time; and as for young
ladies' he had never paid any of them visits
exccpt under the immediate superintendent OF
their careful mammas.
Fry. however, done very well, as we think the
following will testify:
He knew nothing more gratifying in the char
ncteriSticS Of the century than the active SYM
pathy that is taken to extend the held oil "o:
mans operations to elevate her intellect and
her capacity in the fields of industry and art,
to reward her labors, and to put her in posi-
ton Of wo,nanly independence. There had re-
Gently been mighty changes in this respect lie
was no woman'S rights man; he did not belong
to any sect: indeed he hardly belonged to NM
self-but he did believe that great deal might
woman There was certainly no duty more
beautiful than that of tending the tiower-no
labor more pleasant than that of cutlvatlng the
garden. In saying this he drew marked dis
tinction between that labor and the peasant la
Dor of the fields rs we saw it in Europe, where
women are the slaves of the feudal aristocracy
and Of the War Party. 4 friend of his passed
some time in the south Of France, in the Sum.
mer of 1911 aud 1912, and he said that in that
time he never saw man in the fields; that the
labor was done by women, the men being drafted
by the Emperor to fill the ruis of military glory
and feed the carton crows from Madrid to Next.
co. He (NIr Fry,) himself, had seen woman,
o. donkey, and an OK, yoked together. The
ScavengerS of Paris to this day are women. The
hOd-carriers in Vienna are frequently women.
But he must draw distinction between that
brutal labOr-not brutal labor, but that fierce,
muscular labor--which should belong to men,
and that softer labor in which women might be
engaged al freScO, in the open air, under the
bright sum- and under the genial breezes of
Heaven. This should belong to women. But
in our country he thought we had got to the
opposite extreme. The women were too much
in the house The old, broad family chimney
place was superseded now by the family stove,
| and a great deal of the bloom of the rose that
once mantcd on the checks Of our country girls
had now faded. He thought that the time had
| now come when should change this, and he
| trusted this festival was the Inauguration OF
system of rural labor for women, which, while
| it would promote their health, would not detract
| from their deIicacY.
| When the Roman Empire fell, we knew little
| of gardening, till the time of CharlemaSnc, who
ordered that certain particular fruits and flowers
should be cultivated, and considering the tlmc
| in which he lived, it wonderful how Judi
cious was his choice. The Saracens i'll Europe
brought gardening to great perfection. One OF
them who lived in the year 500, and who our-
ished in Spain cultivated 1900 species OF flow
IN thn (,rnn
authors. In the sixteenth century the art of
gardening revived, and the revival occurred in
Florence the most ma gnLicent gardens in which
was that established by CoSmo de Medici, from
the art spread throughout Europe and was
scientifically taught and ditfused. Henry the
Sth also instituted gardens. In this country,
the first great attempt at gardening was that OF
the celebrated bOtanist, Burton, i'll the neigh
berhoOd of Philadelphia, which is even yet
monument of his genius, for there are very few
gardens Of that kind that will bear any great
notice in this country. We had nothing, COM
parable in any sense to the JdrGin dcS I'tdntcS
in Paris, to the garden at Amsterdam, or to
that of the Emperor OF Russia, which, as being
in cold climate, Is stuPendouS effort OF skill.
One range of lighthouses there is 800 feet long.
1t belonged 20 a free people to produce results
equally great, Ivy themselves; it only required
that the people be fired by the sacred princi-
pies of right and of the economies which under
lie them, to produce that result There was
embodied in thi4 question of gardening,
great politico economical. principle. He had
the opinion of the most eminent osricul-
turstS, which verified by no less a man
than the great agricultural chemist Liebig that
this country, so far from growing richer, was,
at this moment, actually becoming poorer. For
why? Because we had no gardens. We en-.
deavored TO stretch over too great distance to
make railroads, which we could not pay for,
and if We kept doing that we would feed for
eign nations at our expense. The wheat
lands of this State did not produce more than
one-half Of what they did thirty years ago, aud
Ohio, virgin State, does not produce now on
an average more than twelve bushels to the
acre, and it is failing every year. Nov, what
was the remedy Tor this? 1t was in intensity
ing and spreading our manufactures, and in
Epntting vegetable gardens alongside Of them
We would find that the institution of the gar
den was higher than that of the cities. 1t was
the last thing that came to an empire, and if we
wonld show him savage nation he would show
us nation that knows not either fruits or flow
ers-the American Indians, for example five
had gardens producing fruits that could be eaten
on the spot, would avoid the expense Of
transport, for it was a remarkable fact that
nothinp which contains a large quantity of