New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1864-09-12
DRIED PEACHES FOR THE SOL
DTERs.


We do not need TO remind our readers qua
friends tha, Army Hosptols are filed with wounded
soldiers who have pcred life and perhaps lost limb in
defense Of Our country; and, with men who are sick
with levers contracted in swamps IN which they we're
planting Union cannon, through which they were
advancing Union lines. Our people realize hose facts
only wildly already.
There can then be no tIse more orpoE'une than Tie
present " remind cur Farmers and hartetGardeners
and more specially FruitCultnriss, tia; their dl
10 these suffering Is not concluded when they have
sent as many Of them have done. liberal donations o.
vegetables and fruit 10 the nearest camp hospital
as free gift the brave boys in blue. ~ this time Of
wear the bows are pretty well supplied with al kinds Of
garden sance thanks 10 the generous hearts Of hose
wno the iand. Ihey are dong wei enough ner In
this regard brt for tho sra provision mast be made
All the orchards arc beautiful under the pleasants skies
of sunny September and the trees bend under iher
loads Of fruit the supply almost iIcIhspsLble
But Jack Frost will change all this. Peaches depart
before Frost Eyon Grapes avoid his figd com
pany ana III T. eats Apples be has 10 DO content With
scuryy lot Snow storms and Hail asd sleei Ia Their
coming will leave but the remembrance Of The laden
fruit trees Of this month and as euI soldiers cannot look
out lor their future Il must be done for them and
you, Farmers Fruit Grower, and Gardeners, mast ~
| il.
There Is not q LOYAL uan n the land who las wife
or whose wife hos q child that will not Willingly gladly
do all they ssn ~ secure the comfort and cVn'sesoence
Of our wounded warriors
The Sanitary Commission " no have deserved and have
received the richest crop Of blessings ever yet shoNcred
Oh human head apnoanoe that In response to their cali
upon the country for BlackberTes, there have been
hundreds OF bushels Of dried frat, and hundreds Of
gallons Of blackberry Syrup, Wine and Brandy sent 10
them aud the curative results Of the same have beer
most encouraging and beneficial Thousands Of soldiers
have been csnorted aud cured by this opportuno gift,
and the Union armies have bees gthened BY whole
ba,,aons Of men Who have booen restored 10 health
ard duty by this thoughtful proseHt from Lany
homes.
To the Children especially do the soldiers thanks
and to the Children do the Commission swayd the praiss
Of having worked most faithfully and sdustrousy to
gather and prepare these frnn. IT seemed II every
little enc old enough 10 reach the berries bush had
picked with all the speed that eager Enthusiasm
lend 10 pinbl. childish fingers and had, each and Ill.
cent AL their gatherings 10 the poor soldiers
! God bless them ALL
But now tho Berry season I, nearly quite gone and
later fruits have taken their place in the markets
And So nov begisss work In which too the Child
rens' eager hands may have their full shrc. To pre-
servo the later huits FOR Winters In The ho pitfalls
and among the convslescess is the specal work thai
now preeents itself
There is also fot the Gardener work enough arising
from his special department Of Horticulture. There
are vegetables which BIO prepare for army use, and
which cannot fell TO prove blessing Whenever, and
wherever they are introduced.
For instance; Tomatoes always most acceptable
whether in the form Of pickles. Obey may be picked
either ripe or grcezor the ripe may be thus put
up and thea whea the fsss come the vines may II the
last moment be stripped q green ones, which may be
picked and thus tho entire crop be ssyed cstsup
canned or bottled Tomatoes.
| Then there is dried Sweet Corn Injury most highly
priced and always difficult to procure. ARl it is
really pity that this most valuable adjunct 10 the hos
pta stores is not prepared In greater qualities For
this too il work in which the Children could again be
Smost useful To pick pack aad prepare the corr vosld
be q work in which ton thousand willing little hands
would GLADLY engage. 1t needs amply 70 be cut
from the ear and carefully dried. In the possible
Some persons boil 1t before eating from the cob others
de not-but either plan will do and as the which
gives the least trouble 10 moro likely 10 be- generally
adopted and to be productive Of more liberal results it
is perhaps better to recommend chat the BE- pre-
| pared without cooking.
All kinds Of eann.d vegetables ase most grateful.
Beans Peas GATE, and planted for the purposc) POta-
toes prepared o. aDtlscorbuics by picking are