Dr. B. F. Dunkley has made public some interesting facts derived from his own experience in regard to the healthfulness of fruit. When he first went to the West, thirty years ago, no orchards were there, and few vegetables were raised. The diet of the people consisted of corn bread, bacon, and a little black coffee, without sugar or cream. Inflammatory disorders, such as relate to the lungs, brain, bowels, and heart, prevailed in the winter, and were often attended with fatal results. Malignant dysentery, the pest of armies shut off from fruit, afflicted many of the inhabitants in the summer and fall, and in the spring it was not uncommon for whole families to be sick with scurvy, the disease so fatal to sailors on long voyages before canning fruit was discovered. Dr. Dunkley told his scurvy-stricken patients, to their great surprise, that their blood needed no medicine other than vegetable acids, and he ordered them to eat oranges, lemons, and sheep sorrels. Now fruit and garden vegetables are abundant in the locality, and the diseases are not of so malignant a type, and yield much more readily to treatment. When orchards first began to bear, Dr. Dunkley noticed that those children whose fathers had planted apple trees, ate plentifully of the fruit, and enjoyed most excellent health, while children living where no apple trees grew, were dying of flux.