THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
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A LAYMAN’S VIEW OF APPLE DAY. 
We are unqualifiedly in favor of apple day as a fixed annual 
observance. 
The declaration is made without mental reservation or dietary 
forebodings. To the extent that such a thing is consistent with the 
comprehensive and exacting duties of a newspaper of today, the 
Free Press is an apple organ. 
There is a tradition carrying every badge and sanction of truthful 
origin that the apple was mixed up in the advent of original sin, but 
we can only figure from an unprejudiced point of view that the 
apple was an innocent bystander, an unconscious agency, the 
means of a predestined end, a—well, you understand. 
Even if the apple did win a bad reputation, it has lived the thing 
down. Putting aside the apple of Sodom, the apple of discord, the 
apple of love, the apple of your eye, the crab apple, the apple cart 
that is so frequently upset, the apple graft and the merry apple bee 
that lives in memory with the good old quilting bees, there are 
thousands of varieties of apples, and they are the queens of the 
orchard that steal their complexions from the sunlight. 
Solomon sang, “Comfort Me with Apples,” and what Solomon did 
not know about being wise remains in the unexplored land of 
mysteries. The possibilities of the varied fruit permit of no limita¬ 
tions. New England waxed strong and aggressive” on hard cider, 
and when there was a union with native rum, war accompanied. 
Applejack and apple brandy have been potent factors in keeping 
the solid south solid. Half a dozen drinks at a sitting “applefied” 
a man. 
Recall the apple butter you used to stir in the old copper kettle? 
Did you ever lie under an apple tree until hopelessly under the 
influence of its seductive fruit? What do you know about “apple- 
sass,” preserves, stews, puddings, dumplings and all the rest of the 
productions of the culinary department in that line ?—Detroit Free 
Press. 
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“There’s rosemary, that’s for remembrance, and pansies, that’s 
for thoughts.”— Shakespeare. 
“Lovely flowers are the smiles of God’s goodness.” 
—WlLBERFORCE. 
“If human life be cast among trees at all, the love born to them 
is a sure test of its purity.”—R uskin. 
“Overflowing blooms, and earliest shoots, 
Of Orient green giving safe pledge of fruits.” 
—Tennyson. 
“What would the Rose with all her pride be worth, 
Would there be no sun to call her brightness forth?” 
—Moore. 
“Rose ! thou art the sweetest flower 
That ever drank the amber shower : 
Rose ! thou art the fondest child 
Of dimpled Spring, the wood nymph wild ! 
Even the gods who walk the sky 
Are amorous of thy scented digh. 
Then bring me showers of roses, bring, 
And shed them around me while I sing.” 
—Moore. 
“Poplars and alders ever quivering play’d 
And nodding cypress formed a fragrant shade. 
—Pope. 
