Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1865-01-28

II. W. BEECHER mnue the IOloWlDR re-
marks on apples ni'o.
Popular 10 word which is much des
pissed, but may be made respectable. To
this country wealth is obliged to pay res
pect to popular opinion, and Of oil & uits
the apple 10 the most democratic--the true
democratic---for some democracy that we
ore acquainted with sprung from the FIRST
opple. This popular favor Of the spple
arises frop the nature OF the tree and the
fruit. Any man who can grow corn can
raise spplcs t
"In every soil, and under the most dis
couragiDg circumstances, the apple tree
lives and thrives. 1t can bear high or low
cultivation. 1t is not dyspeptic like the
peach, or spoplectic like the pear, or
scrolulous like the plum. The apple is
among the fruits, like the COW among ami
mails, like the camel, end like all good
things uncomcly-for beauty is only the
mask which covers everything that is evil
In the beautiful. evil has struck in and sf.
iects the whole vital organism, while 10
homely women IL is only on the surface.
"Have you never seen the maiden. who,
in whole family of girls, remains unmar.
ried, SO homely that the lovers have all
passed by her, who was the nurse, the
mother, the story-teller, to o generation Of
little ones-,be Virgin Mary of the house
hold-the mother Of God 10 little souls, :,
in teaching them the better life-who was
more fruitful in all except children, than
any Of her Kindred? e.
My perfect idea of woman is my dear
old aunt Esther, who will spend ages 10
heaven wondering how she ever got there,
and the angels will wonder why she was
not slways there. What such one is to
the household, is the apple among fruits
Not the least among lis excelencies 10 its
hardness.
eve should as soon think of codling
our forest trees as the apple tree. 1t will
thrive in the stony lot too steep ior the
plough, or grow in the meadow, aud repay
US for the more abundant nutrition.
Where q mullen stalk or hill of corn
will grow, the apple tree will continue to
secure nn existence. 1t can be plain or
ornate, always able TO take care Of itself
what call democratic 1t is emphatically
the peoples tree. lu Florida or Canada
it is equally at home. and equally good 4;
while on the'Pacific slopes it is portentous
in size Newton's apple, which originated
in bis broiu the scieuce Of gravitation, hud
it grown in California would have forever
put an end to his discoveries, aud have
opened the heavens to his gezs.
THE health and longevity of the opple
tree are unsurpassed. Healthier than the
pear, no blight or disease affects it worms
and insects may lodge upon it, but unbuck
ling lis bark, it exposes them to the wind
aud storm. An acre Of potatoes will not
produce as much as the same area in or.
chard. with five times the labor. The
grub only is q formidable enemy, but is SO
easily extermiuated by flexible wire, iba,
IL you have borers you deserve to be bored
Farmers never think Of nursing their
orchards. Aud as for longevity, have
a tree now growing on my farm at leas
FIVE hundred years old. Two ladies' now
eighty years of age, say that in their child
hood it was called ibe old apple tree. A
twelve feet from the ground il is fourteen
inches 10 circumference the fruit swee
and pleasant, though not large. do no
expect to live 10 see my young trees reacl
that size. l cannot resist feeling of res
pect and awe when stand in the prescnct
of this gigantic tree. which heard the can
nonading Of the Revolution, underneath
whose branches Washington may hav,
walked, musiDg npon the great task tt
which he was devoted
''The wood Of the apple tree has use
which We are not scenssnmee to credit !
with.
For 6rewood 1t is equal to hickory
and for cabinet work it is unsurpassed il
beauty by any other wood. Ny best bu
reau is made o! the apple wood, and rs
sembles cherry. In Europe the roads or
oordered with apple trees, and the fruit
free 10 the public, except where wisps {
straw fastened 10 tree indicate that tn
fruit is reserved for the owner of the land
How adapted to such use is the up
I right apple tree; planted along our roads
there would be no temptation for those ju
venile saints to rob our orchards. Of al
5 the contrivances to prevent stealing this
q the most certain and easy.
9 "Tbe origin of the cultivated apple
u still uncertain /; the wild-crab theory is Hu
settled, for no one has evidence that tn
seed Of the crab apple ever produced q
| Vulb INo uu plVuo c'Si w
for the apple what has been accomplishe
I'd for the pear. Although probable. the th'
q, ory must remain uncertain until, if b
e some horticultural Sunday school the era
u apple has been converted into good Chri
lian trees. ~ III
"No other fruit has such range of !
pening aud Of use. In good cellars il
sr sr kept from July to July. Kinds SO deica
y land as the General Grant OF the vii
!. would say, so refreshing, even the pei
"a cannot rival, and not even the peach CO
". surpass.'
eve can no more tire of apples thu
We can of bread. AS the apple tr
among the trees OF the wood, so is my
n loved among the sons of men. sat doV
?. 2. under his branches with great delight, al
his fruit was sweet 10 my taste. Stay .
with hsgons. Comfort me with apple
for am sick Of love- II this Is the Gu
. of love, the orchards Of America can II
q. nish an abundance Of the remedy.
10 10 The various culinary uses OF the app
:! it's value in raising aud fattening stOc
s' were touched by the Reverend lectur
with great humor, and for an hour be be
the audience delighted with his picture
country life, interposed with wit and /