Arizona weekly citizen., 1888-02-25
For Children in Tucson.
Who are Planting Trees and Rose.

Who are Planting Trees and Roses etc.
 DEAR CITIzRS:-See eeing in your paper that the children ard other ci;izs9s are taking lively intcre-i in planting ouI trees, shnll De highly delighted To give any assistance n my power in the way of sending them any trees or shrub bery grown ID this laUd of swset oranges and roses.
 The products Of vegetation were the first material eiits Of God to Adam.
 While he was Co lule over and subdue all animsls, the fruit of the green herb and tree, that is, the fruits of vegetation alone, was given to the human rsce for food, as the time of their creation; and there is no authority for believing that any other than vegetable food was used by man before the great flood.
 The garden, beautiful Eden, was for Adam 10 dress and keep, and its fruits were for his slstainance. The thorn, the thistle and ihe vIle weed were among the cures of tte fall.
 The grscs s5d beauty of foliage hsve breAthod the faIrest forms of inspiration upon the painters brush and sculptor's chisel. Long ago, n tho ages of the for gotton past, En architect formed a clus- ter of acantkus leaves growing around the pedestal of shattered vase, and from the instruction thus given was re- ceived lesson which gave to the world the beautiful COrinthIan column, with its grsciul ornHmentstIDB, and the leaf crowned ruin became immortal.
 Customs nave seldom Outlssted re- liSions, perhaps because so inextricably interwOven: but flowers and leaves have been the emblems of different em )tiOns of the human soul, among nations. and every form of religion, through oli tune.
 The poplar tree is remarkable Tor the amount of exhalatiOns or the amount of moisture given of by irs leaves. During certain bours of the day the water will drop to the ground as in sigh. shower.
 The classic legend represented the daughters cf the sun god ss weeping over their brothers fate. until changed oy Jupiter into poplar (weepIng) trees, and the poplar has been tsVOrIts orna- mentatiCn of cemetRrIes ever since.
 No.vithstRndir. all the provisions Of ihe Creator. We behold in nature a grea. economist. Wnile esioying the full p.e1titu ie of creative bounties, she wastes nothing. The adoption of Sege- tables Iroiucts t0 the needs of man, IS a proof of ths. The most nutritious fruits, .s ihe banana, bread-fruit. and | many c;hers, flourish 10 the warm regions | of the tropics. wla,e man IS fed and | q E..In n.as afuk ufn while the products of the temperate | zone, a. the grgIHs, G-e found to mingle l xI,h aui assist the digestion of the sni- msl food with which man IS partially | sustained III the collier climates. The | pleasure of tbe eyt, the charms Ot per fumes, and the delights of taste, the lux | uries that wait upon civilization, and the mysteriss Cf the silent but resistless | forces of nature, are produced and de- ye!oped by the plant life of the earth.
 believe there is DO fixed rule for the | natural distribution of the different fam Ilies cf vegetation oyer the earth. Cul- tivation and civilization introduce and nG;ura.izo many plarts before unknown. As the cldeu forests are borne away, the | beE ms 0f sunlight break the seals upon mansOlea Of leaves. Eew life is resur- sCc;ed therefrom, and a flora hitherto presents it's beautiful tribute 70 civil'zltion
 Sometimes pago of history reveals to us a conquerur carrying home vsgeta- ble trophies from subiGgsted lands, and ID thls manner introducing foreign pro- lncts into his own country. Lncullus, s renowned Roman general, carried cherry tree loaded with ripe fruit, from Pon.us to Rome. to grace his triumph. This fruit was never b-fore seen in the Roman empire, yet within a hundred years after. the cherry was common Western Europe, as one of the EesuIts of that Roman victory.
 The greater parton of the cultivated fruits of The temperate z'nes grow wild m the region of country south of the Caucasus. There We find the native home of the apple, pear. cherry. peach apricot, plum, and many others; and though the delicious peach discloses its poisonous quslitieF, and the apple exist as ;hs sour crab, ye. the harsh fruits are very possibly the remains of ancient gardens planted by the immediate de- of Noeh, who settled in the fertile valleys Of Armenia; and cultivs- ticn IS all that is needed to develop
 
 Our modern luxuries of cultivated flowers and nice fruits are also in a great measure due to she famed hang ing gardens of BsoylOn, long known as one of the seven wonders of the world. These gardens were reared by one of the kings tO please Sylvan taste Dt his cOuo;ry born queen, MediAn who pined for the wild woods Di her fathers rugged kingdom. With he fall of Babylon these gardens were destroyed, wbi!e the fruits and flowers there soon degsnerated into a state of EildDess, and as such have ex- sted through the intervening centuries. But the germ of higher development remsing, and a. length civilization en- again to give to the world be delicious fruits of old.
 Az some of the results, the luscious peach Of Arizona regales us with its delicate flsvors; the harsh crab apple, of , which have spoken. yields over fifteen hundred cultivated varieties. And the iecendsnts of the wild rose of AsIa Minor contributed their loveliness to he gardens of the enlightened world ID , hundreds of beautiful and fragrant va -ieties.
 Plant fruit trees by sll manner of , means, and sll the rose bushes you leed. Write to me and name the color, stc.; they be sent you.
 PAUL GREGORY, M. D.,
 HERMosILLo, Sonora, Feb. IS.