The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-11-03

swamps, or with old DRAWINGS from the
sheep and cattle pens and yards, will
answer.
This compound placed round the
roots of the vines in the fall will gene
rally work better than in the spring.
Cherry trees and berries can be i'm
proved with very little care and less
| money. This can be made visible in
one year and become an established
fact in two years The fundamental
points In vegetable physiology can be
learned without mastering the techni-
cal terms. The earnest farmer only
wants to understand all the facts, the
phenomenal parts can be communica-
ted to his reason without language, and
he can increase his knowledge daily by
watching the flowers, fruits, seeds and
leaves down to the roots beneath the
soil, and his natural intelligence will
give him the power to understand nat
ural law and it's compensations without
books-step by step his mind will I'M
! fold and grasp a force which will illus
| trate the facts-that through his minis
| trations to fruit trees and vines he has
stimulated his own brain, wherein new
thoughts have terminated from seeds
of kindness and in bestowing food upon
starving plants, dying from mans neg
lect, he has aided his own brain.
New England displays many such
cases. where land and trees are dying
from starvation. The owners of those
lands and trees may have had what is
| termed finished education" They
may have studied botany, physiology
and agricultural chemistry even and
have mastered the mere technicalities
| of the sciences. But the neglect of
| their homesteads shows they have not
comprehended vegetable physiology in
it's variety of agricultural interests,
and they have paid limited attention, If
any at all, to those sciences. There are
many we'll educated preachers and
teachers of gospel facts and philosophy
| who have never tried to distinguish
certain forms of vegetables from 9TH
ers, and do not know the nature of
| plants and trees and can hardly tell
one from another. They believe in Gull
| tivating souls, but have no interest in
| the cultivation of fruits and the pro-
/ auctions which are required to keep the
| material organism healthy and strong
| to do Gods will. Herein lies one Of the
| profound mysteries which time alone
will solve. Men will yet learn that
neglecting the soil, starving their fruit
trees, vines and vegetable gardens are
among the objectionable sins, and for
which there is no atonement no re-
| demption. Everybody likes flowers;
their bright colors mingling with the
fresh green leaves are pleasing to all
eyes, their fragrance and bloom attract
all hearts. Yet men can live without
flowers but they cannot live without
fruit and grain, and it often happens
that things of least Importance are
really most attractive to the sight 1t
was said that Adam and Eve were sur
rounded in the garden with beauty
But the trees taught them to know
good from evil and to do many things
that were necessary to their real COM
fort The trees are our natural teach
ers, and the fruit trees are more essen
tial to the comfort and happiness of
man than the forest trees, though both
classes are utilized for the pleasure Of
mankind. Fruit trees never lose their
prestige, though the apple tree has been
a double blessing. Yet few could be
comfortable without apples The flow
ers of the apple tree are very beautiful
and the artistic coloring of the flower
and the tender manner in which it
holds the seed shows the delicate work
of nature. The leaves Of the flowers
are scattered by the wind and a reddish
thick ball is left on the end of the STEM
The seeds are contained in the ball,
which continues to grow longer and
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tree is rich and well cultivated those
red balls continue to increase in size
and the seed holders become apples and
food for man and animals. 1t is the
Same with pears, oranges and all larger
fruit trees, and they all depend upon
the soil for nourishment and perfect
growth. The soil is after all the main
thing to be looked after. Fruit, grain
and vegetables require rich, well fertil-
lied soil, and this fact has become fully
established among agricultural chem
lists and old farmers.
Seeds are scattered by the wind, even
the seeds of fruit trees as we'll as grain
do not always sink into the soil where
they are dropped. 1t would be ro-
nance indeed If man could write the
history of all the seeds and plants of
the earth. Those utilized by the hui
man races and others not yet known.
The oak, walnut and chestnut trees
grow in all parts of the world. The
grain, corn and many of the different
varieties of grasses were brought from
Asia and the old world Indian corn is
native on our continent. Wheat, barley
and rye came from Persia, Egypt,
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