. The new hydropathic cook-book : with recipes for cooking on hygienic principles : containing also a philosophical exposition of the relations of food to health : the chemical elements and proximate constitution of alimentary principles : the nutritive properties of all kinds of aliments : the relative value of vegetable and animal substances : the selection and preservation of dietetic materials, etc., TUB APPLE 64 Hydropathic Cook-Book Varieties of the Apple—Abuse of the Apple Crop—Cultivation. wild crab-tree of Europe. No fruit is more easily cultivatedor preserved, and none f
. The new hydropathic cook-book : with recipes for cooking on hygienic principles : containing also a philosophical exposition of the relations of food to health : the chemical elements and proximate constitution of alimentary principles : the nutritive properties of all kinds of aliments : the relative value of vegetable and animal substances : the selection and preservation of dietetic materials, etc., TUB APPLE 64 Hydropathic Cook-Book Varieties of the Apple—Abuse of the Apple Crop—Cultivation. wild crab-tree of Europe. No fruit is more easily cultivatedor preserved, and none flourishes over so large a part of theearths surface. A great many choice varieties grow readilyin all the temperate regions, and some kinds arc produced inrather cold latitudes. In Homers time the apple was regarded as one of theprecious fruits. The varieties that may be produced by cul-tivation are innumerable. A catalogue of the London Hor-ticultural Society, published in 1831, enumerated 1,500 sortsof apples; and Mr. Cole, author of the American Fruit-Book, says that more than 2,000 varieties have been producedin the State of Maine. I can imagine no branch of agriculture, domestic econ-omy, or even political science, more useful to mankindthan that of raising good apples. This kind of fanning wouldtend wonderfully to elevate the human race above its swine- Fig. eating propensi-ties. At presenta large portion ofthe apple crop ofthe world is per-verted to hog-feed-ing and cider-mak-ing—neither ani-mal nor liquor,when fed or made,being fit for foodor drink. A little atten-tion to pruning,budding, grafting,and transplantingwould enable ourAmerican farmers Aliments, or Foods Proper. 65 Summer Bose—Early Strawberry—Pall Pippin—Mother Apple. and fruiterers to supply our markets, profitably for themselves,with an abundance of sweet, mellow, luscious apples, so richand savory, indeed, that but little else than a piece of goodbread would enable the veriest epicure to
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