The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1868-08-06
asw FOR GOVERNOR.
JOSHUA L. CHAMBERLAIN,
OF BRUNSWICK


d l.e' Fruit.
Weeks ago we saw apples upon our fruit
stands not much bigger than hickory nut,
marked a cent apiece. The skins were
green, shriveled up and tough, looking as If
they were made expressly for the purpose Of
producing cholera morbus and other d seases
OF the stomach and bowels. 1t is strange
that grown people should purchase such un-
ripe, wormy fruit, and children ought not to
be suffered to buy it,, or be tempted with it.
Being demonstrated WITH our truit-selers re-
piled it was the best they could then obtain,
Well, suppose it was? Is that reason why
they should purchase these little green,
wormy apples to sell again? BY no manner
OF means. If decent fruit cannot be had
thus early in the season, let them wait until
1t can. 1t is shame to sell unripe fiuit. even
ii fools are found to buy it.
| 10 A writer in Chamber 81 ournal says; "There
is an essence which belong to most fruit and
! which begins to vanish the moment IL is
plucked." He was speaking OF ripe fruit and
not OF such as We have described above: for
| thai had no "essence" in it save the cholera
Ripe fruit should be eaten as soon as possible
| a'ter 1t IS gathered, it the consumer expects
to have all OF that subtle flavor which is con-
| veyed to it by the living stalk from the sun
| led tree; or as the writer above alluded to
says: 'Frnit should be eaten alive, like oys
| ters, There is an edge to the taste of a fresh
opened oyster which comes, | suppose from
| the surprise he feels at being suddenly SCOOP
edout OF his SHE'LL" He thinks the fresh-op-
ened oyster has no time to grow feverish or
melancholy, being caugh, in state of Sc
rene consciousness, and having sound mind
in sound body. We confess this is putting
very hne point upon it, No douDI There i,
definite time when truit of many kinds has
the best flavor, and, il eaten then, it will be
the most luscious in the mouth. The Bart
lett pear furnishes good illustration of this
principle. "-1 a.af ..l.-e- ~
The writer aforesaid thinks the morning is
the best time for fruit, and yet he is not quite
sure OF 1t. The afternoon is good, but he
does not recommend fruit with the dew up
On. 1t. Let the. fruit get its oDn breakfast
before you eat it yourself. 1t breakfasts ON
early sunshine and dew. 1t takes these good
things in, and smiles upon itself and the
world just as you do half an hour after a
| pleasant breakfast But much of the ruit
that has been in our market-especially ap-
pies and pears-has bad no breakfast or other
meals. 1t does not smile on itself or on the
world, and those who have eaten it must
make up wry faces instead oil smiling ones.
| We have no wish to injure any mans trade.
! or interfere in his business, but we do enter
o;'r protest against the traffic in unripe and
unwholesome fruit. 81. ,.-.-..-.... ......
1t is possible that there may be some rival
ry among our fruit-sellers to see who will
nave the first pears and apples in the
market, but many of these first pears and
| apples are hardly fit to give the pigs We
/ have even more of such fruit this season than
ever before; at least it seems so to us at the
present writing. We have also seen green
peas in the market not half grown. Peas not
bigger than duckshot are not fit to eat. In
such the vegetable substance is not enough
developed to make them either profitable or
wholesome tood. And yet cultivators will
brlng them to market and the midde-men
| will lind fools enough to buy them, and we
may be'reckoned in that category, for late in
the season as it is we bought some few day
ago, and notwithstanding the pods looked
fair and plump, yet not more than half of
them contained peas fit to eat. Farmers and
gardeners should not pick their peas and
bring them to market before they are mature
enough. 1t is an improbable business all
round except perhaps to the middle-men.
/ fe.s,..g .toi-n5..-os-l ,.lt AGRICOLA.