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Some Apple Quotes: And
God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit
tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth:
and it was so. And the earth
brought forth grass and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding
fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind:
And God saw that it was good.
Even
if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my
apple tree. If
possible, have an orchard. I know a
clergyman of small income who brought up a family, very reputably, which he
chiefly fed on apple dumplings. What
is done by human prudence must be ascribed to the direction of divine
Providence; he that teaches the husbandman his discretion (Isa. xxviii. 26)
teaches the statesman his. The
greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add an useful
plant to its culture. Fine
fruit is the flower of commodities. It
is the most perfect union of the useful and the beautiful that the earth knows.
Trees full of soft foliage; blossoms fresh with spring beauty;
and, finally, --fruit, rich, bloom-dusted, melting, and luscious—such
are the treasures of the orchard and garden, temptingly offered to every
landholder in this bright and sunny, though temperate climate. He
who owns a rood of proper land in this country, and, in the face of all the
pomonal riches of the day, only raises crabs and chokepears deserves to Have no faith in the selected list of pomological gentlemen.
Their “Favorites” and “Non-suches” and “Seek-no-farthers,”
when I have fruited them, commonly turn out very tame and forgettable.
They are eaten with comparatively little zest, and have no real tang nor smack to them. The
mark of a man is one, who will plant a tree when he is old.
The
accumulation of varieties of fruits within the last twenty years has been so
great, that anything like a complete description or account of them all, would
in itself exceed the bounds of a moderate-sized volume. Why
do we need so many kinds of apples? Because
there are so many folks. A person
has a right to gratify his legitimate taste.
If he wants twenty or forty kinds of apples for his personal use…he
should be accorded the privilege. There
is merit in variety itself. It
provides more contact with life, and leads away from uniformity and monotony. If
only one out of ten United States Citizens planted just two fruiting trees, the
world would be richer by nearly 6 billion pounds of fruit.
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