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culture, to look well to the selection of varieties. " On any 

 account do not cumber your land and waste your labor, and 

 deprive yourself of good fruit, as many have done, in plant- 

 ing a great number of miscellaneous varieties, with high- 

 sounding names that will neither give profit nor pleasure ; but 

 confine your planting to a few well knoiun kincls^ that have 

 established a reputation for their excellence in ifour vicinity 

 or section of country.''' You need not discard all Northern 

 or foreign kinds, as many of them do well in different sections 

 of the Souih and West, and may do well with you ; yet it is 

 much safer, in our judgment, to plant, as before said, kinds 

 that are known to succeed well in your section, and if for 

 market, the earliest should always be selected in the more 

 Southern districts, and for all places, a few of the very best 

 is better for profit, however large the orchard, than a con- 

 fused number of those that are uncertain or medium, as it re- 

 gards the requisites desirable in good, profitable fruit. In 

 these opinions Col. Zollicoffer, of North Carolina, concurs 

 with me. 



