The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-09-30

Island in Boston harbor, f:pm which. on
The -loth of October. 1888. ten fair pip
pins were brought. there being not one
apple or pear tree planted in any part OF
the country. bur upon that island" Gov
Endiedtt had on his farm in Salem, now
N panve,s, in 1910. the first nursery OF
Foung fruit trees that was ever p antea
N this county; and it is related that he
sold 500 apple trees for $50 acres of land.
81 at the rate of two trees for ar acre
l good barga n for the. purchaser if he
took good care of his trees.
But the cultivation, of fruit was ex-s
.remely rare in the cary history of the
country Indeed. II could hardly be said
20 have been cultivated at all, as a part
Of the produce of the farm, till COM
2aratively recent date At the close of
he. Revolution, and, in fact, at the end
IF the last century it would have been
impossible TO have found in the whole
country the number and varieties of good
fruits which might now be found in a
single good farming town. There were
orchards of seeding apples. and many
Of them We're far better than none but
that is nearly all that can be said for
them They We're raised chiefly for the
making of elder. Most of the favorite
varieties of the present day had then no
existence; and If any very. superior APP
pie had existed in any isolated locality,
1t could not from the very nature of
things, have become generally known and
appreciated, for, as we have seen. the
barriers which separated the rural pos
ulation of that day were so great often
to leave them in ignorance of what was
passing, even in a neighbo-ing town. A
seeding equal to the Baldwin apple might
have remained unknown twenty miles off
from the beginning to the end of the last
century Apples were apples, and al APP
pies were fit to make cider, and that was
enough
1t was regarded as absurd for any but
a young man to set cut trees; and when
p man of seventy began TO plant an or
chard, the idea was so ludic-ous as to
subject him to the ridicule of the whole
aeighborhood.
THE REAL BEGINNING.
But during the first quarter of the
present century many large orchards
were planted in different parts of the
country sill with particular reference
to the sprQdllc ion of ciders The fruit
crop of the country was of SO little i'm
pOrtance as not to have been thought
worthy OF d place in the collection of our
nationals ia tiSties, even sesIate as 1896.
Now it amounts to many millions of dol
lars a year, and is fast growing to De
one of the most important products Of
the country, the annual sales numbering
hundreds Of thousands of barrels.
The oldest horticultural society III the
United States was. founded in 1929. For
some years such associations were few
and feeble, on account of the want OF
sufficient public interest in the subject
Fruit of the choice varieties was a lux
ury which could be enjoyed only by the
wealthy Now there is scarcely a CO..
tage in real 1--we country town or viii
lage which has not its grape vines, fruit
trees and berry bushes The public TO
longer ridicules The man who Plants choice
trees. with the hope OF enjoying their
fruit. Modern. science. in. this direction.
secures speedy returns.
THE POLITICAL VIEW.
Like the gathering of grapes and Der
ries in Southern lands for wine making,
the Northern lands supply the deficiency
by the gathering of apples for cider max
ing. The poets have sung of apple juice
John Philips. in his poem of Cider
eulogzes the red-streaked apple and it's
genial product:
Tempting. not fatal, as the birth of
that
Primeval intcrdicted plant that won
Fond Eve in hapless hour TO taste. and
die.
This. Of rac.e bounteous influence, in
Poetic rapt,res and the lonely Muse
Iindles 10 loftier strains"
Readers Of Bryant will recall his poem.
1.-The Planting of the Apple Tree.
'iW-hat plant we in this apple tree?
Sweets for a hundred Howering springs
TO load the May-wind's restless wings,
When. from the orchard row. he pours
It's fragrance through the open doors
A world Of blossoms for the bee,
Flowers Tor ,lc sick girls silent ROOM
For the glad infant springs of bloom
We plant with the apple tree"
IIeine. III his Book of Songs, says:
The blossoms and leaves in plenty
From the apple tree fall each DAY;
The merry breezeS approach them,
And with tGem merriiy play"
Whittier. Longfe.ow. Holland. Taylor,
Cooper. Burroughs and other Americans,
who nave been near to natures heart
have written of the apple Thoreau's
chapter on wild apples is a most de:i-
cious piece of writing. 1t has in it the
smack" of the fruit it celebrates, and
IS dashed off with color in the same man
Yer. Tennyson does not overlook it:
'Lo! sweetened with the summer light,
The fuIl-ihiced apple, waxing ovsr mel
low.
Drops in a silent October night"
IT PLEAsEs EVERYBODY.
The apple is the commonest and yer
the most varied and beautiful of fruits
A dish of them is as becoming to the
center table in winter as was the vase
of flowers in the Summer-a bouquet OF
September gS and Greetings and Northern
Spies. a rose when it blooms, the apple
IS . rose when it ripens. 1t pleases ev-
cry sense TO which il can be addressed
the touch, the smell, the sight, the taste
and when it falls in the stu October
days it pleases the ear. It Is a call to Il
banquet; IL is a signal that the feast
- ready.
How they resist the cold Holding -
almost as long the Fed ec@ess OF gee
boys do A frost that destroys the pa.
tatoes and other roots only makes the ap-
pie more crisp and vigorous They peep
cut from the chance November SHOWS
unscathed. When 1 see the fruit vendor
on the street corner stamping his feet
and beating his hands to keen them
warm. and his naked apples lying ex-
posed 10 the blasts, I wonder if they
Go not ache TOO, to clap their hands and
eniiv-n their circulation. But they can
stand it neariy as long as The vendor
can.
The boy is indeed the true apple eater
his (.Np jlIiry flesh eI11-eS tho =,lfoy- A,rr