Litchfield enquirer., 1864-12-08
FRUIT GROWERS CONVENTION AT
 IOWA GLAND.

SPEECHES BY HENRY WARD BEECHER ON THE
 "ApPLE" AND HORACE GREELEY UPON c. FOREST
 TREEs.'
 A widely-advertsed Fruit Growers Con vention" was held at Iowa Gland on the Hud- son, on Tuesday, Nov. .23d. The aff4r seems to have been a failure, SO far as he adver- tised programme was concerned. though there was an auction saesof Iowa and. Israella grape vines. at which about 5000 Iowas and 1900 Israellas were sold in lots of 250 each. Silas Wells, of Salisbury, Ct., bought lots of the former at 975 and 90 cents, and Mr. Hoyt, ot Connecticut at 92 cents. The assembly cf whom there was between one and two hun dfeI orgaaized a ' Convention with William C. Bryant as President and before which Henry Ward Beeciler delivered brief but telicitous address, which We find reported in the New York Tribune as follows
 Mr. Bryant upon taking the chair, made a few appropriate, pleasant remarks. Then an original anthem was sung by " select choir led by Mir. Zunder of Plymouth Church." and then the pastor of that church, the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, delivered discourse that no reporters brief notes can do justice to, for mere words cannot convey the style, manner, and force of this inimitable speaker.
 His text was the apple, which he denomina' ted the real Democratic fruit-the fruit for all. His discourse was not intended to in struct how to plant and raise the tree and grow the fruit. as much as to show it's value to mankind His address was so full of points of quaint humor, blended all the time with morals and instruction. that he kept the audi ence continually on the qua viue, and filled with disposition to laugh or applaud. He evidently felt disposed to give Dr. Grant a good-natured punch in the ribs now and then and one of his idiosyncrasies, was so partcu- larly refreshing" that the audience burst into one good universal round of merriment. In deed, the enjoyment of this address seemed to be sufficient to clear away all the fog" that had enshrouded all the other parts of the 1" Grand Convention"
 A few of the truths about the appl, uttered | by MT. Beecher are worthy of record. The whole address, il we could give it, would be read with satisfaction, and remembered for its many good things.
 He said that We oug ht to appreciate the ap. pie, because it is really the American fruit Not that it originated here, but because il fourishes here better than anywhere else, ip quantity and quality. As an adjunct of do mestic comfort, the apple in America is unap proachable by any other f ut. Another of its values is it's great diffusion. extending from California to Mexico. and from the Atlantic to the Pacific. It is of all fruits the easiest oi propagation and improvement. Every man ol I xuho nf lam rap apples, and all can learn to plant and prune and graft and bud ,ssaad get new varieties. The tree is everywhere admired for it's goodness more than it's beauty. Indeed, great goodness and great beauty are incompatible. It is like some of our patient, good. natured, hollow creatures, who are prolific of great good tc others witness some of that class whom we sometimes sneeringly denominate old maids 1 full of boundless good nature as the apple tree of fruit.
 1 The apple tree thrives in all soils, hot ol cold, wet or dry fla farmer has field SC stony rough or rocky. 90 cold or wet, or dry, ol ] poor that it is unfit for anything else, or sucI l a steep hillside that he cannot cultivate it, hs says to himself that will do for an orchard. !! And there he plants trees. and there, in spite
 of all his wicked neglect, they produce fruit I Yet there is no tree that loves it more nor on, Il that gives better reward for attention. It vii live in a state of neglect hut in such stat,
 it never puts forth its best efforts. Whereve
 Indian cora will grow. tho land is suitable fo
 an orchard and wherever timothy grass vii ripen it's seed, there the apple tree will ripel it's fruit. It is rarely subject to disease it i ], seldom winter killed, and although the youn, trees are soi6etimes killed by the borer, the l would not bs if the owner would pay one-fft , as much attdntion to them as he does to th raising of . crop of potatoes, from an acre C