The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1882-08-17

cat. 30 here again is the great need O.
@s:HTciety like ours to tell our people whal
WIZ grow and pen in the different sec.
t:ohs OF the State, aud when they will
lipeh and what are good for home con.
sumption, the table, for cooking or 70,
market. But this is not all that we car
accomplish, and if time end your na
lenCe would permit would with plens
Jae umeii upon the great benefits to be
l.nee t;on W from hybridization, the produc
s,"n aa,; OF new fruits by planting seeds, the
".eil.iatlon OF those that are harsh by
eale ana cultivation, and tell YOU how
"lIe ana interesting field is before him
i'ti VINO enters heartily into the spirit
oi horticulture, who watches Nature and
Improves every opportunity to help her
enorts TO produce the richest results for
man mans comfort and luxury. / would
glaaiy point to yo'' how profuse and be.
nehceht Nature b lavished her hands
upon us. In England there are not more
shah nineteen different trees that grow
apoHe thlrty feet, in Europe there are
aooat twenty nine, whilst we have here
1niIty.nine different kinds of oak alone,
IN Europe they have but one grape vine,
ahu mere east of the Mississippi River
NE nave hve and OH this continent eight
distinct species: The fox Crane. The
summer S grape, the winter grape, the low
iane winter grape, raparia and the mus.
Iaulne, with one other in Texas and in
Arizona and one in California. I would
ten you too how in England they can
only raise peaches and grapes under
Cias5, and that even in the Northern pa, /
OF .he United States their grape vines
haVe 10 be protected during winter by
| Delng covered up with straw or earth.
nere the richest fruits grow in abundance
without protection and almost without
cultivation. All Of these advantages
VIII strike you as rich gifts which our
creator has lavished upon us. and m
improve them should be our first duty
| next to our children and family. What
we most need now is q society of intel.
ilgent persons banded together in the in.
terest OF horticulture, who will meet here
OF AT some point in the State annually.
anu anu discuss the merit or demerit of the
ulherent Kinds of fruits, as to how they
are affected by the different soils and
iatltuaes IN the State, to test new seed
ilpgs and hybrids and new varieties from
every, quarter of the globe, and be able
TO Gull what is best for our uses from the
whole; to publish the result of such !.
Perlence SO that every one may read as
lie runs to put the foot down upon tree
peddlers, and to acknowledge the merit
OF the honest and true nurserymen and
to denounce those who deal falsely and
frauJulentiy.
1t ls impossible, and it would be q
reproach to your intelligence, to attempt
10 relate even small part of the duties
or benefits to be derived from our society
properly conducted. 1t is sufficient to
say that to make rapid and accurate pro.
gress in horticulture it is absolutely nee
essary. to combine i'll a society, when our
experiences are compared, errors corrcc-
ted, and new fruits and new theories are
thoroughly tested and recommended only
after thorough trial. The advantages OF
q combined association of this kind are
plainly demonstrated in the histories of
horticulture in Boston and in New York.
In Boston the intelligence and spirit of
the citizens always act combinedly, and
has effected more progress in horticulture
than in any other place l may say in the
world. Her horticulture society has
more intelligence, taste, wealth and en-
terprlse in it than can be found anywhere
in the world. Her exhibitions of fruit
are perfectly marvellous-to think Of
800 varieties of pears exhibited by one
grower alone, and almost equal and
abundant success in all other fruits. In
New York they always act inharmoni-
ously, and consequently effect little, al.
though they have had an organization
Of the Farmers Club there for half cen.
onH hora tl>o
position, soil, &C., o7er Boston. 1 am
told you will not see so fine a collection
at London or Paris or Client as at Boston,
and to-day it is impossible to collect US
fine variety of fruit for the table any
where abroad as you can iii the United
States. And am sure, with little at.
tention, we can raise in this State and in
Georgia the greatest variety and as fine
specimens of fruit as in any State in the
Union. Of all the fruits which are pro-
duced upon the face of the earth, pomo.
!ogist place first in merit the .u;.stogen,
fruit indigenous to the Island of Java
and other islands in the Indian Archi-
pelago, second the pineapple, third the
orange, fourth the peach, fiftn the grape
and sixth the pear. With the exception
of the first two named, the mustogen and
the pineapple, we raise all the rest in
South Carolina and Georgia, and great
many others Of equal merit, think-the
apricot and nectarine, the strawberry,
raspberry, gooseberry, whortlcberry, null
berry, blackberry, the mespelus plum,
the Japanese persimm0n, the apple, the
current, the cherry, the chestnut, the fig
and melons and potatoes in profusion.
Surely ne are blessed, and I vii; not live
to see, but half q century will see this
country teaming with the most lucious
fruits of the three zones and our people
a wine. making and wine. drinking peo.
pie instead Of drunkards from whiskey
and guzzlers of beer.
Ny heart is 30 much in this matter of
promoting every worthy and stable inter-
est of the State, of developing every in
dustry that tends to benefit and amelior-
ate the condition of the people, that I
wish knew what more l could say or do
to get our people to think as l do and
practice as do what preach by putting
there minds and their hands to the work
of planting orchards and vineyards Of
the best trees and of the best viues, Of
giving their attention and care, and above
all of giving them the consideration of
worth and praise that they are entitled
to in our domestic economy, health, COM
fort and well-being. When we have sue
ceeded in practical horticulture, in prac-
tical field, orchard and garden culture,
the rest win flow easily from it, for
"grapes do not grow of thorns nor figs of
thistles."
- South Carolina will get 1875, 400
..,4 nf thu Rirnr md Harhnr A nnrnnria.