New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-12-28

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In the March Chronicle describing the signs
that attend the return Of Spring the author gives
lively picture of the season of sugar-makng, which
he considers 1.-The most delightful OF all farm
work. or of all rural occupations" Those of our
readers who haze been on the spot in their aay
will ACKNOWLEDGE the truthfulness of the sketch:
81 think any person who has tried it Will agree with
me- about the charm of sugar-making though lie
have no tooth for the sweet itself 1t is enough tnat
IL is the first Spring work, and takes one TO tue
woods The robins are just arriving and their merry
calls rlng through the gades. The squirrels are DO"
venturing out, and the woodpeekers and nutha'ches
run briskly up the trees. The crow begins 10 cav,
with his accustomed heartiness and assurance; ana
one sees the white rump and golden shafts OF 'he
higb-hole rs he fits about the open woods. NeAi
week or the week after, it may be time 70 peeih
blowing and other sober work about the larih ou'
this week we will picnic among the naples ana our
campfire shall be an incense to Spring. All, am
there now i see the woods flooded with snhhen'
smell the dry leaves and the mold under them Just
orickene6 nv the warmth: the long-trunked naples
in their pray rough veries stand thckly about see
the trimming pans and buckets always on the sunny
side of the trees and hear the musical dropping Oh
the sap; the 'boiliDg-place,' with It's delightful
canp features is Just beyond the first line, with its
great arch looking to the southwest. Inc souhu vi
its Ak rings through the woods It's huge ket'es VI
broad pans boil and foam; and ask no oiher ue
LIGHT than To watch and tend them all day, to dip
the Gan from the great casks into them, and To re-
pleDish the fire with the newlycut birch and beech
wood A slight breeze is blowing from the west; 1
catch the CLINT here and there IN the afternoon sun
of the little lills and creeks, cOulsng down the Sues
of the hills; the awakening sounds about the Iarh
and the woods reach my ear; and every rustic or
IL fl,asn arfh loo
oulse of returning life in Nature synpSthize with
that verdant Hibemian who liked sngar-maklng 50
well that he thought he should follow it the whole
wear. I should at least be tempted to follow the
season no the mountains, camping this week on one
terrace. next week Oh one further up, keeping just
on the hem Of Winters garment, and just in advance
Of the swelling buds until my smoke went mp
through the last growth Of maple that surrounds the
summit"
But perhaps the most toothsome passages IN the
volume are devoted to the praises OF the apple III
which the author rs hardly surpassed by MI
Brvants racy poem on the "Plantng of the
Annie Tree Not a little of the sunshine OF our
northern Winters, he afirms, is wrapped up Ill
this peculiarly American fruit. While 1t Is Inc
most common, it is also the most beautiful
"A dish of them is as becoming to the oenter-"oie III
Winter as was the vase Of flowers in the summer
a bouquet of spitzenbergs ana greenngs ana Nof'h-
ern spies. A rose when it blooms the apple is
rose when it ripens. 1t pfeascs every sense 10
which it can be addressed the touch, the
smell, the sight, the taste; and when IL 1aiiS
IN the stD October days it pleases the ear"
The hoy is indeed the true apDlceater aud Is not TO be
! questioned nov lie b. tie fruit with winch me-
nockets are filled II beons 70 him, and he may steal
il II cannot be had in any other way His own juicy he-
S eating las little reference 10 the state of his appc
|
wants tie apple just the SAINT Be0re Inei Oh hIc1
] meal IT never comes amiss The farm boy InnnG-Cs
appes all day long He has nests of them IN the ha!-
| NOV. mcij0wng, to which he makes frequent visit
Sometimes old BIindlc having access lhl2Sn tiu '
door smells them out and makes short woTk OF thcln.
The apple is indeed tho lrit Of youth AS we grow OIL
we crave apples less Ii Is an ON nous sl-l 49, o
are ashamed 10 be eeen eating them on INC su.'
you can carry them IN your pocket and you iaia no
constantly md It's way 10 them Whh Eonl "a
apules lnd YOU have nome and you make no huctuha
visits 10 his orchard; when yenr lgneas,' Is ]
with no thought OF the fruit al yohr elbow th.n ~
assured YOU longer boy, either ia iat OF cals
T1e genuine appl"t"tel col"rtS ,i'y r ci,ar
apple IN their season as oilers VITA hpc oI ci""l
annie While he is waiting for the train hc eats an apple
| sometimes several Of them. when lie taxes walk Lo
APPLES lie offers apple 70 his companion, ana take
one himself They his chief sOidce When ON the l"a'
He sows their seed all along the route lie losses l"o
core the window ana from the top OF hc s'as'
| coach He would, IN tme make the lana one N%st
teeth y all have jhc first taste. Then he knows ne nes
favor is iimedi@cly beneath inc SKIN, anu .n"J ~
says instead of baking it, by all leave the SKIN
Ii improves the color ana vastly hls'en' VIC h''o
The apple is masculine fruit, hence women are poor
appe-eatcrs. 10 belongs TO the open ar, AMI requires ar
! open air taste ana relish
The closing chapters Of the volume are devoted 10
the description of brief European tour, IN which
some of the characteristic differences between En-
! gland and America are presented III bold rehei. MT
Burroughs was deeply impressed with the beauty Oh
| the English landscape, and the substantial comfort
! Of English domestic life. The account of his eXpe-
rience in London has certain naIvete which j.
rarely found i'll the recitals OF foreign tourists HIS
| comparisons between tn two countries are greatly
in favor of the meowness both OF the Land and The
people England has hung so long on the tree Of
nations that it has every quality OF juicy rpeneSS.
We are pitched several keys higher in tins
| country. Everything here il loud, sharp and
carisb. We have not learned to value The
golden virtues of silence. In England, everything
| is on a lower key, slower stcadier, gentler All
sounds arc softer; the surface of things has great
smoothness: the eve of day and the face of Na;ur,
are less bright; there is no abruptness in the and
scape no sharp and violent contrasts, no brilliant
and striking tints in the foliage. soft pale yellow
tint is all one sees along the borders of the Autumn
! woods English apples are not 50 highly coiored az
ours The blackberries, just rpcning in October
are less pungent and acid the garden vegetables are
not so rank and brOus; the meats are tendercr and
sweeter. The manners and character of the people
| are in accordance with this elemental modera-
ton. There ia no loudness, brazeuncss, impciii-
nence; no staggering and fippancy; no iHso.
encc Of pOrters clerks, or conductors; no impc-
| tunity of boOtblacks OF ncwsboys. Nj Burroughs
appears to have been taken by surprise at the KIND
illness and sweetness of the English people He had
fancied them race of Wild uukeInpt Dereikcrs,
! a., of .ir
He Is not the first American tourist Who has fallen
into the same error Doubt!es5 specimens Of English
surlinsss and barbarism aro etten met with, a.
rl.,nl 81, f. not ,.ef eNtnct hnf fle NsItnI who