The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1867-08-30
The Crane.

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his laboTiBg creature, man. In it's ripe
cluster, there is q blessing. It cools his
fevered blood solacee his mean spirits
and invigorates his system 1t is, with
''corn,'' the very staff of life included in
the divine benedicGon pronounced upon.
the friends Of God, and to be enjoyed in
the coming lispensation, when the curse
for mans transgression viii be removed
from earth, and briers and thorns no more
infest the ground; when the sweet angel
of Peace shall wave her bright wings over
all lands then the favored OF Heaven
shall set each under his own vine, and eat
of the fruit of his own fig tree, and there
shall be none to. modest or TO make afraid
''and they shall build houses and inhabit
them and they shall plant vineyards and
eat of the fruit of them 4 If
the vine be blessing, why should not
each family possess one or more /? Very
many have attempted the cultivation of one
or two varieties, and been disappointed by
losing the expected fruit by the rot and
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the Isabella and Catawba, now rejected va
rieties, New and most valuable ones have
been propagated, that are not only more de-
licious and more abundant bearers, and at
the same time scarcely subject to the rot.
The day is coming when the grape and
wine crop of the South will bring more
money than the cotton crop. THE time IS
coming aOhen age agiU import cotton and export
mine. God hes evidently designed the
South and California to be the very para
disc of the peach. the grape, the orange
and lemon. The North cannot successful
ly raise the grape it is too cold, and the
climate too chaBgeable and severe. Year
by year the grape culture will move South,
where there is offered it light friable
soil, and the climate of Syria and Pales-
tine. What astonishes me, Mr. Editor is,
that our people take so little interest in the
cultivation of this ''fruit of the gods.''-
There are varieties that will flourish and
yield fabulous profit in States lying so
far north as Kentucky and Tennessee
The Concord and Hartford Polite, AID
Clinton, and Norton. yield immense profits
in Northern Missouri, and they will with
US, and improve as they are taken South
Your beautiful heading, take ii, is your
prediction of the future of the South, if
we are but true to our agricultural and in
dustrial interests. see Ia it the tasty,
comfortable, elegant farm-house and the
tidy inviting out-buildings and surround
ings. I see the cereals, as we'll as the
cotton plant, and the factory working up
the raw material for home consumption
and export. I see on it our field cultivated
with improved implements of husbandry,
and over all this prophetic scenery, far
more promising than that seen by Eueas
on the "God wrought shield - I see the
vine with its clusters dropping new wine,
and making glad the heart of man. ex-
pect to see your prophecy in fulillment,
and want you to hasten the time, and en-
courage every family to plant grape vine
as well as an orchard of apples, peaches
and pears. If we should eat more fruit
and less meat, me should BEL healthier and
a happier people. g.