Show FRUIT CULTURE the following interesting and instructive lecture on the above subject was delivered at the seventies council hall on tuesday evan ing ad dinst by mr john jaques this evening I 1 do not purpose to antei entertain tain you with things particularly dew new or startling norto horto nc r to obtrude olto trude any fanciful theories of my imagining ia lit prospect to the culture of rait rait ruit in this territory probably there are many persons here before me ard aid ard certainly thero there are numbers la in this city who are well capable of instructing me in this matter for I 1 am only a learner in father adams necessary attractive enamoring ena moring business of cultivating the soil I 1 do not present myself with an art idea of teaching the professors but I 1 do desire to lay before you some of bay bwy reflections u upon on a subject intimately connected wi al b a hp healthy and comfortable life upon the earth earlb it if I 1 lead your minds to follow up the subject to practical and beneficial results in extend ing the area and increasing the aagre aggregate ate of 0 the production of the best beat fruits jn in this naturally barren and repulsive territory I 1 shall be the means of diffusing the enjoyment 02 0 many of the choicest bless blessings i which the al mighty has haa ha placed witha reach of the enair enter prizing and industrious and ind I 1 shall be to fully repaid 1 for my labor A re residence a ide lae nce nee of se beveral several veral verai 7 yearb y years biars in this thia le territory ril rii hab has furnished opportunities for ob observation tib n which enable ine lue me to t conci conclude gide fide that there her ber e aie xie ere are hundreds yea thou thousands sands of people who never lived so poorly for BO so great a length of time toge together as they have done in these valleys the living is not poor as regards the staff of life for bread breadstuff stuffs a and one or two other staples of subsistence ae more plentiful and more easily obtained here than in the old countries of 0 europe but poor I 1 exceedingly poor when we speak of a healthful variety of food and this poverty is intensified by the scarcity in many instances ani and api aph the entire absence in gome iome some of groce groceries riel riek and variety ot of food if not essential in every case to a good degree of health I 1 co consider nalder indispensable pen sable to the proper enjoyment of this mor nor tal dal life ilfe ii in the states a quarter and in the old countries a shilling or a franc will purchase an excellent meal tor for a poor family and which cabbe cau can be varied from day to day but the quarter starter must grow to a dollar here and this is often a barren desert for dollars in oti ott they are seldom sufficiently plentiful mass of the people to be spent by them for food except such tood food as may be found in tea coffee tobacco snuff and whisky here are bread and butter in summer and bread and bacon and potatoes in the winter with an occasional basin of mush and milk a dish of baked squash or beans or a pumpkin pie pic thrown in for dessert but the appetite frequently freau antly demands that variety which is said to be the spice of life and pine pines a under deprivation A child or an adult even sick or approaching convalescence scarcely knows what to todo tio xio with the lump jump of bread az and its blick slick and greasy com complement of fat pork but looks upon them with a vacant dissatisfied led gaze or turns away with a fainting sickening sick eick ening ehing relapse cf feeling perhaps it is not too much to say that many ot of our friends whose bodies now cow moulder beneath the god od might night have been still with us it in their sickness a a greater variation of little comforts in the way of palatable and inviting tit bits had llad beeri beel procurable for them now I 1 conceive that this desirable variety is within easy eaby reach more cr er less of most of the inhabitants of this territory I 1 am confident hat that it may be liberally enjoyed by those reaid reald residing big hig in the lower valleys tresor the elium sucre has proved a good thing and ana has op opened eneda a supply y of an excellent arti artl article cleof of tarle wein weib 1 yet many persons c uld starve tarie upon bread and molasses molas seb sea in addition to a g nerous assortment of garden vegetables an abundance of divers kinds of fruits appears to me to be the means of remedying this monotonous unpleasant ani aal tubful system of living as althey are very grate grateful fid to the palate raw or cooked besides there are many instances on recard rec T to which I 1 need not now specially refer II of f the beneficial cial effects to invalids of a plentiful plent irai iral diet of ripe fruits ori has prevailed that jears years upon bri precious e lo 10 us longed for fruit fruition ion fon xan can gan be do realized is true however of but a few species fruits from one ti 6 four yeary years ars only is required ed for the production ole of the tho most useful kinds adapted to this region some efthem of them can be had in profusion in one year and a moderate harvest of many cf of them can be secured in two or three years I 1 spoke of garden vegetables before introducing the fruits individually I 1 woud like ike to di digress diness reas ness a minute to say a word in favor of the tte more general cultivation of two aiu valuable alu able abie plants I 1 refer to aspa asparagus and rhubarb or pieplant pie plant both are early productive ex excellent c ei lent and arid worthy of all acceptation this ia is everywhere a popular vegetable furnishing one of our earliest dishes of what may rna come under the comprehensive comprehend lve ive department of 11 greens and continuing truong in use a couple of months when there is little else 91 the kind tp to be had this excellent esculent may enrich the humblest tables in the terri i the orthodox method metho dof of setting out asparagus ia is in beds about four feet wide with plants lants 1 a foot apart each ni nay pay though it ia is difficult to safely safety fork over ithe the soil wih the crowns of plants planer only a fo fot it distant from each other yet this thi s mode of planting may not be tery very objectionable in rainy countries 4 nut sut here I 1 should say go to work in the fol owing in marinen ri lannert dig a piece of land as large largo aa as requisite two spits deep incorporating with I 1 it a I 1 iberal liberal quantity of manure set sit the plants in rows eighteen inches to two feet reet apart and a foot apart in the row you can cau irrigate such a bed and hoe and fork between the rows you you yon will find it to your account to spread a coat of two or three inches of manu manure re on tife life bed led every fall and fork it in in the ensuing spring A heavy sprinkling of salt every spring willful will kUl kui the weeds and will not injure the asparagus though not necessary n to at t as the annual manu alone be will wa I 1 1 produce nine fine crops erz ern you can tan begin lo 10 cut for fot or thi tabie table the be se sel 1 cond leaion season and thenceforward annually for a generation this luxury is secured to iolj 3 ou I 1 the thi nurserymen nurseryman nursery men generally gener dIly aily hafe have odeo oneo 01 toi tol eGi two 1 jear year old plants for sale j 2 AMMAR i thil nin ia isa a valuable ingredient in in pud puddings dinos dinga and is one of the best substitute substituted i for fo fult fuit it is ready for use early in the spring and aud can be pulled patted moderately all bummer summer i Thir whir surplus thus gathered bernd whit whal x is for current use may ma the cut igitol j IW mch as oz tho two lp L d and kept for or ye years yeara 3 dry araxes peaches you 5 Must dri drive the he business is aa Is short and the work pressing but you cyr can gather at and ad dry your rhubarb al at your your leisure all cummer er long I 1 should prepare the ground aa as for asparagus giving a similar annual top dressin excepting the salt the plants may be set bet three feet teet apart each way jf I 1 particularly desired a few stalks can be pulled lulled from vigorous roots the same season hey they are planted do not take all the stems from tomm torn a plant at any nime hime time after give five or six years tears hears the roots should be taken up and the crowns bowns k divided and replanted singly as at the he first I 1 tue TUB APPLE I 1 consider this the jibe most useful oe of all fruits not rot only for its general goodness for dessert or for cooking coo cop king but also because of or its being in season all the year round for as every body knows the late vari vane eles les ies of one yer will keep heep till the early ones onea of the next are ripe even this fruit can be obtained in three or lour cour yearb years f corn gIt bee ins but yesterday that the great rush was made for cache valley and already apples have been produced in that northern region do not waste your energies upon miserable seedlings but procure trees or buds of of the fine kinds which have been imported into the territory such as thel the early harvest red june early joe keswick codling porter burgh rhode island greening and a large anji satisfactory list cf others it would not pay e to raise new varieties from seed one seedling in a thousand might prove highly valuable with most odys of ps time is too precious to be spent in bu such buch ch experiments in the states stales and in europe thap apele ape le Is dwarfed on ohi the paradise stock itself a a apple so dwarfed the tree trees not only occupy less space but bear earlier A method ot of propagation might be useful here PEAR this is the favorite fruit of modern times to my taste for the dessert the pear far higher than the apple and baked are a prized dish d ab with many people giom grom my earliest recollection apples were not to thought of for immediate eating when good pears were in the way in the length of its season for use the pear ranks next to the apple pear culture is rather backward in these valleys but so something methin more worthy has accomplished bince since dince the return from south bouth several years will elapse before the lucrative the flemish beauty the bartlett the and many others of these fruits are in any wise common wi h us in the states and elsewhere the angl and other quince stocks are employed to the pear upon ani atil to induce early bearing but the high L culture and the severe and ful fal pruning necessary essay y to good results I 1 fear will prevent dwarf pears from being common 1 it tj t astl THE CHERRY the cherry is a beautiful and addition to the dessert and not without for cooking the earl est of tree trie fruits it ever a favorite especially with the children litie litle has baa been done jn in propagating the cherry in this territory but several girst first rate kinds have haye been imported As it is an early and a productive bearer and a fine looking and pleasant fruit it 13 1 I 0 o be hoped that pending and future efforts for the propagation and diffusion of the more excellent kinds will be crowned wi wih b success THE reach PEACH NECTARINE AND anu APRICOT the peach commends itself by its rapid growth easy culture early bearing productiveness tive ti veness riess and luscious excellence being considered the most delicious of fruits but this superlative term can only by any ity aply apply to the first class kinds such aa as early york c ork george the Fourt fourth ily lit grosse dilg Alig mignonne nonne or kf kensington esington and others of a high character f uit alt ia is very common ammen with us andia and in the brief season of perfection is almost a drug in the market but the halry hairy dry tasteless filbert lookin circumstances with a consistence varying efrom from baat viat of bf a hogs bogs snout to that of a cheeps fleece which ivsich constitute the stape staple orsome oabe the orchards hereabout are a perfect burlesque upon the idea of a peach As there are sone some so ne excellent seedlings seed Unga growing 1 ng in in this ti ils its cit ci tylas tylar yas well wels as several of the best varieties imported from the states it is ex er 1 tr mely unsatisfactory and is a sheer waste of time and la borto continue to produce produce tire tiie wretchedly inferior kinds with which welch we are flooded every S pt ember the tha nectarine a very beautiful fruit is a smooth sunned skinned peach and valuable OB on that account I 1 f I 1 I 1 the a apricot ip ricot iru in consequence of its earliness sani iani and jant goodness ia is specially desirable land deserves to be ba much more common than it is witalis with wit hlis us i iff zite zire irre iram ottiar 1 the curcillo crr cur cullo ulio weevil proves destruct destructive ve 0 to o this crop iti ift thi the states seit e 8 abie tele e we ste vre have happily escaped the he visits of f thi s preda for fon and arid the plum nourishes flourishes with with wilh us as well as can be desi ed cd roligh eq destitute of bf the tha exceeding i I 1 j juiciness ulc iness and melting inciting op of the finest ind the prussic acid b etterre kincl s incident to many in q af them to tb my ray jaste faste the we best varlet edof be P nim him poss es ifred pec LlIla uilia u liar ilar i elch eich ich ness bess of flav t au 11 their town lown r the smal hidy prolific ir but inferior and tiam piani bich bibb which ia a a mast st old the only ond 7 arts of 0 ibis tins territory bears beard ao no kind kidd of comparison ampar bon son leith with each su ch excel 1 jent ted varieties virl eiles elies as three ee p gaaei gaie Jeffera jeo Jef aerson lerson OD mclaughlin biln blin imperial gage purple 1 favorite magnum bonum and several others the plum in its finest varieties should be come one ct cf our standard fruits trees of a few good kinds can be pi procured pio plo cured which ought i 1 to bear in two or three years ears from planting many persons would JI and il it to their advantage to 0 o bud their wort worthless bless biess young peach trees with the superior of plums and thus be abl able to 0 o e enjoy this fine fruit quicker and mare more easi easl ly ay t than an by planting t THE CURRANT the wild currants from the kenyons kan as a general thing are not great favo ites itea with me some of them are as a agreeable asree ree able abie to the taste as lobelia or tobacco mixed with the yellow kinds kinda I 1 consider scarcely admissible to fo the desser deaser and not worth the cooking when black ones onea can be obtained of this last color or approaching it I 1 have met with two or three fine varieties large larger juicy sweet and well flavored and with a akin ekin thinner than a bulls bide they will cook well and will make good pres preB preserves erves when one is planting it is as easy to piani plant the best as the worst and it is far more satis factory for ever eyer afterwards but there are other kinds within reach for preserves the black naples similar but superior to the black engl earl sh ab with several like varieties stand perhaps preeminent pre eminent the white dutch and white grape the red dutch the victoria the the large 11 but ut acid cb cherry erry with other Talu valuable able abie varieties are growing here and the time may not be long before they en eu sirey tirey irey supersede the inferior mountain kinds which we were glad to obtain when other and beter were beyond our leach reach the currant bushes with their profuse crops of e ion lon long iong bunches bundles of yellowish white or clear red be berries cairies are ate a very pleasant sight and they are as useful as pleasant everybody should have them in one or two years from planting according to size of trees the fruit begins to appear in I 1 the bummer the foliage is scorched or turns yellow but the green leaves and the ever we welcome 1 berries appear the next year as usual THE gooseberry GOOSE nerry A high authority considers this the |