Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-09-09
Cincinnati Horticultural SOcIety-PItIfuI
story of Tennessee Exile.

story of n Tennessee Exile.
The horticultural Society met Saturday
morning. at eleven oclock, at their rooms in
Bacons Building, on the corner of Sixth and
Walnut streets. President Gerard in the
chair. The minutes of the previous meeting
were read and approved.
communication was read from H. l..
Eady, of Union Village, Warren County,
Ohio, giving some particulars of the Horti-
cultural history of that place.
The Shakers landed there in March, 1905,
bringing, with them a small assortment, of
seeds, including different varieties of fcabbages,
beans. peas onions, squashes, beets, carrots,
sc. The first orchard was not planted until
1909; until that time the paw paw was
the only thing approaching fruit to be OBJ
tanned in the neighborhood. At that time
four or five varieties of apple trees, one or
two of peaches, the Isabella grape, some
cherry and plum trees were planted, all of
which, with the exception of the plum, -four
ished and brought forth fruit abundsntly.
A short communication signed "Novice"
was read, purporting to be reply to the
paper of DR.. Slack, setting forth that cleo
tricity is not simply the engineer directing
the vital force, but that it is itself the vital
force or motive power in plant growth.
DR.. John A. Warder briefly addressed the
Society. He had visited Mr.. Porter's orchard,
of which mention was made at the last meet.
ing, and samples of whose fruit were here
to-day, abundantly attesting the diligence
and care with which it had been cultivated.
That, however, was not the subject upon
which he rose particularly to speak. The
Society had horticultural friend in TenneS-
see who had established beautiful rural
home amoung the mountains of that State.
| A man who had once been an artist of genius
and celebrity, but who had not considered it
a degradation to leave his easel to pursue the
! iguoble art of Horticulture,
He had recently received letter from this
| friend of his J. W. Dodge, formerly an artist,
| now of Pomona, Tennessee, who for being a
Union man, and loving that flag to which he
had been attached from birth, had been
obliged to leave that lovely home among the
mountains. He had hitched up his mule
| team, and with little bacon and corn-meal
| for his journey, on a few hours notice, left
his home to be confscated by the rebels. The
speaker had received the last letter from
Hillsboro, Ohio. 1t was pitiful story of a
loyal man. With his family he had travelled
I all the way from Tennessee, by the way OF
Monticello, Camp Robinson and Maysvillei
had been obliged to dispose of his team, and
had progressed thus far on his journey tt
New York, where he had once resided, anG
had faint hopes that he might be able agaiI
to find home and commence the support o
his family.
DR.. Warder read extracts from the lette
in which he stated that the value of hi
property, which had been confscated by tn
rebels, was not less than $4,000. The cours
pursued by the rebels in Tennessee was a
Internal one. This was sufficiently atteste
by the fact that he had been driven from
home to which he dared not return for tn
fault of loving his country and the flag with
in whose folds he had been protected all hi
life. Several of his sons had gone into tn
. war, and Judging from the concluding sen
tence, it would be inferred that ne was hin
self in good Sighting mood. "0hI that th