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a large amount of Osage Orange seed, and is now being propa- 

 gatedby Jas. Hammond. He will soon be able to supply all de- 

 mands for the plants. We are not prepared to institute a 

 comparison between Osage Orange and White Thorn ; but a 

 few years will test them. 



Fruit Cultuue. — The following varieties of fruit trees, 

 furnished by our nursery men is here inserted. No. 1 is de- 

 signed to represent the most approved for flavor, fruitfulness, 

 &c. No. 2, as less valuable, and No. 3 as not desirable. 

 Those which have no numbers affixed, have been but recently 

 introduced into our county, and though they are highly re- 

 commended, they have not yet undergone the test of soil 

 and climate, which in some cases materially change the char- 

 acter of trees and seed bearing plants. 



1 Rambo, 



1 Yellow Belleflower, 



2 Milam, 



2 Trenton Early, 

 Sweet Belleflower, 



3 White Sweeting, 



2 Sweet Maiden's Blush, 

 Vanderver's Sweet, 



1 Stillwater Sweeting, 



1 Claybank, 



2 Haglow, 



3 Carolina White Sweet, 



2 Melting Pippin, 

 1 Maiden's Blush, 

 1 Holland Pippin, 



3 Gloria Mundi. 



