The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-12-02
PLANT FRUIT TREES
On Your Hillsides, You Will Never Regret it, But Will Grow Rich.

4eCBACb Ook NaAA SAoW ~sA~~~' To the People of Alabama:
 l want to talk to you about an import ant matter you have neglected to ycur own great loss. It is the planting out of or rcnards, growing fruit for home con- sumption and for sale in the markets. Forty years ago, old men tell me, almost every farmer in Alabama had a fine or chard, producing an abundance of excel lent apples, peaches, cherries and plums. These splendid orchards were destroyed by the ravages of war. but they could and should have been long since replaced. Delicious fruit is not only a healthy diet, but one that gives much pleasure to the family, and has come to be one of the most money making crops our farmers can engage in. Fruit orchards are strong factors in producing the ties of affec- ton that make the chls dren love the old home-something they are not doing as of old-vcry greatly to their hurt Fruit trees are silent and tenacious agencies in mans civilization. This idea is most beautifully brought out by Jorn Trot- wood Moore in his charming pastoral, "A Tennessseee Romance" which l quote and beg you to read again and again-get full of the spirit of the idea:
 And here is 2 thought that is beautiful to me; that years after we are dead by an act of ours in life we may still give. through the trees we have planted, sweet gifts to those who shall come after us; that year after year, the trees we have tended and nursed and reared shall live on and drop into the lap of each gener- ation lucious. golden bowled mementoes from a hand that is still. And how easy it Is to do this to help others after we are gone. If we were selfish enough to desire it. could we design q way to make mankind remember us more surely? Who has ever plucked a peach from a tree and failed to wonder who planted - e tree? Who has ever eaten a cherry md been selfish as not to care to know the name of the thoughtful giver of the gift? Let him stop and think. Was ever such sweet fame from books or battle? Was ever immortality so easily earned in any other way? A generous thought, a spade, a few moments of pleasant labor years afterward and a thousand cherries drop plump into rosy-cheeked mouths. d hundred apples, year after year, are hid away In urchin pockets. For at last when we come to die. the thing with us is no thow much we have done for God who really needs nothing at our hands, as how much we have done for His chill dren-our fellowmen.
 And so I think it Is better to found nursery than a new sect. I had rather pldHl CHeTIi6S t1dn QlSCOTd. peaches than political parties"
 So plan tyou an orchard, and as the trees grow. develop and bear delicious fruit. 1t will make you glad you are liv- ing-a joy not prevalent enough in our country Do not put 1t off for another year. Now Is the time, prepare your ground for 1t at once and set out the trees this very fall
 In two or three years you will have all the fruit you need at home and to sell. Did you know that you can have peaches from your own trees six months in the twelve? Well, you can! I have done so this year. as I did last year.
 Four years ago began setting out fruit trees on my lot in town, and for the past three years we have had all the peaches we can use besides giving away a great many to our friends. Had known what I do now. I could just as easily had pears. apples and plums, but I only thought of peaches. I gathered beauti- ful Magnolia pears this year from trees only three years old from the budding My trees came from the Alabama Nurs- cries, Fraser Nurseries and Huntsville Nurseries CHeiks & Moss) Huntsville Ala, and every tree has proven to be eN- actly what they represented them to be, and you can rely absolutely on what they tell you as tn their fruit trees They will make good selections for you and you have fine fruit through the entire fruit season and into November, of beach, es. and through the winter of apples.
 While the growth and srpead of the fruit industry has been marvellous in this country in the past twenty-five years, as vet only the great ciyes are reached and supplied by the big orchards Small cities and towns have not yet been touched for there VoU only find tho cos+I,, fruit from California
 There are many thousands of acres of hillsides and mountain side lands in Ala bama utterly useless now, that would be admirably suited for orchards and