312 STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Fruits. 



[ Food and Medicine.] 



It is a mistaken idea that no fruit should be eaten at breakfast. 

 It would be better if people would eat less bacon and grease at break- 

 fast, and more fruit. In the morning there is an acid state of the se- 

 cretions, and nothing is so well calculated to correct this as cooling, 

 sub-acid fruits, such as peaches, apples and pears. Most of us have 

 been taught that eating fruit before breakfast is highly injurious. How 

 the idea originated I do not know, but it is contrary to both reason and 

 facts. 



The apple is one of the best of fruits. Baked or stewed apples 

 will generally agree with the most delicate stomach, and are an excel- 

 lent medicine in many kinds of sickness. Green or half-ripe apples 

 stewed and sweetened are pleasant to the taste, cooling, nourishing 

 and laxative, far superior in many cases to the abominable doses of 

 salts and oil usually given in fever and other diseases. 



Oranges are very acceptable in most stomachs, having all the ad- 

 vantages of the acid alluded to, but the orange juice alone should be 

 taken, rejecting the pulp. 



The same may be said of lemons, pomegranates, and all that class. 

 Lemonade is the very drink in fevers, and when thickened with sugar 

 is better than syrup of squills and other nauseous drugs in many cases 

 of coughs. 



Tomatoes act on the liver and bowels, and are much more pleasant 

 and safe than blue-mass or liver regulators. The juice alone should 

 be used, rejecting the skin. 



The smalls-eeded fruits, such as blackberries, figs, raspberries, 

 currants and strawberries, may be classed among the best foods and 

 medicines. The sugar in them is nutritious, the acid is cooling and 

 purifying, and the seeds are laxative. 



The True Value of Green Manuring. 



By Prof. Julius Kuhn, Director of the Agricultural Institute, Halle, Germany. 

 [ Translated and condensed by E . W. Allln, Ph. D ] 



The practice of green 'manuring as a means of improving the fer- 

 tility of the soil is one of the oldest in agriculture. It was advocated 

 by Roman writers more than 2000 years ago, and from then till now 

 lupine especially has been widely used for this purpose in southern 



