The Kenosha telegraph and tribune. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1859-1860, 1859-10-13
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Horace Greeley, during his recent
tour in California made many interes-
ting observations in regard to the pro
Effectiveness and resources of that State,
and describes It's fruit growing oapabil-
ties as follows
" Fruit, however, is destined to be
the ultimate glory Of California. Now
here else on earth is it produced 50
.readily or so bountifully. Such Pears,
Peaches, Apricots, Nectarines, DC, as
load the trees Of this valley, and ofnoar.
,ly every valley in the State which has
had any chance to produce them, would
staggcr Che faith of nine-Cenths Of my
readers. Peach trees only SIX years set
which have borne four large burdens Of
fruit while growing luXuriously each
year, are quite common. Apple trees,
but three years set, yet showing at least
q bushel OF large, fair fruit, are abund-
ant. | have seen peach trees four or
five years from he States, which have
all the fruit they can stagger under, yet
have grown three feet Of new wood over
this load during the current season
Dwarf pears Just stack into the black
loan, and nowise fortiEzed or cultivated
| but covered with fruit the year after
they were set, and thenceforward bear
ing larger and larger yields with each
! succeeding Summer, are seen in almost
every toierably cared for fruit patch. |
cannot discover an instance in which
any fruit tree, having borne largely one
year, consults Its dignity or its ease by
standing still OF growing wood only the
next year, as is common our way.
have seen Green Cages and other plum
tTees so thickly set with fruit that | am
sure the plums would far outweigh the
trees, leaves and all. and not one be-
rer, curcaho, caterpillar, apple worm,
or other nuisance Of that large and IN.
delightful family, appears to be known
IN all this region, Under hundred
ir2it-Grees, you viii not see one bulb
which has prematurely fallen--a victim
to this destructive brood.
4 LARGE UNIVERSITY AT THE South.
= An institution Of learning is to he es-
tablished In Tennessee. A tract of near-
ly ten thousand acres has been already
secured, and is being laid out with ref
erence to all its capabilities Of scenery
and convenience. The whole amount
contemplated as necessary for the full
development of the proposed plan-the
endowment Of professorship8, the fell
loWships, &o,--will not fall much short
of million and a half Of dollars, and,
as this viii be apet institution of the
| South, and the4object Of It's sectional
pride, the system Of education to be in
augurated viii have the widest range,
including the living languages, the nat
ural sciences, agriculture, all the prac-
tical requirements of the age, as wen
as classical literature.
A PRoL1r1c TRnB.-phe Blooming
ton Pan5Ggra22h tell Of an apple rec, a
Seeding Of some thirty years Growth,
which is now spreading III m 5eonly
! dignity over The three broods of apples,
all OF this years production. Ithas fire.
quently been known to produce tgg0
crops ia . single season; but this year,
the failure Of the peach crop, or proba-
bly, the prospect Of an unusually hard
winter, has called forth all the app,e-pie
energies Of the old plant, and il goes
zone better" This tree IS upon 5ho
Rhodes farm, three miles south Of that
city.