FRUIT CULTURE AT THE SOUTH. 



Good heavens! If there were none but 

 mere ladies and gentlemen, and city-men, 

 and soldiers, upon earth, and no poets, 



there is such a thing as Nature, we reall 

 should begin to tremble for Almacks anc 

 Change Alley, (the " upper ten" and Wali- 



readers, and milk-maids, to remind us that street,) about the 20th of next October." 



FRUIT CULTURE AT THE SOUTH. 

 BY DR. PHILIPS, EDWARDS, MISS. 



A. J. Downing, Esq. — Upon 356 page, your 

 correspondent " Jeffreys," in his review — 

 M New Fruits of South Carolina" says, it 

 is his opinion " that every climate must 

 grow indigenously its own best fruits for 

 ordinary culture." To all this I make no 

 objection. " Jeffreys" has the clear right 

 to think, and to so express it. Nor do I ob- 

 ject to his advising " our southern friends" 

 to propagate seedlings. Yet I object to 

 their doing it. I have no doubt but what 

 in time to come, the south will be able to 

 grow fruit of each kind, fully equal to the 

 state of New- York ; and that some of these 

 fruits have yet to be produced from seed in 

 the south. 



The objection I make is this: There 

 are already quite enough people here, who 

 ridicule all attempts to grow the fruit known 

 at the north and elsewhere as being choice, 

 on the ground that they are not suited to 

 the south. If prejudice was removed in- 

 stead of being fostered, we would soon be 

 able to test the known varieties, and be 

 enabled to adopt all that we need which 

 are worthy. How long shall we of the 

 south have to rely upon second rate, or in- 

 ferior fruit, until we do have these said in- 

 digenous kinds ? How many kinds of seed- 

 lings were grown at Pomaria, the seat of 

 our Summer friend, or where those fruits 

 were originally from, to procure these good 

 fruits? But again, there should be more 

 distinct advice given ; or, I might say, we 



should know what can be done, and thei 

 advise. 



I do not mean to fault-find. No, sir, 

 mean just what I say; the people of tht 

 south are already too much prejudiced u 

 purchase, plant and cultivate even thof< 

 that can be proved to be superior to an 

 that are natives. 



We have already quite enough of varie- 

 ties of the peach, apple and pear, that art 

 equal to the best for certain portions of the 

 year. I will be more minute in part. My 

 knowledge prevents going into names of all. 



As to peaches, the northern and foreign 

 varieties are as early as any we have yet 

 produced ; only one or two exceptions that 

 I know of. 



I name Early Tillotson, Early York (ser- 

 rate leaf,) George the Fourth, Hoffman's 

 Favorite, Crawford's Early Melocoton, Poll's 

 Melocoton, Early Red Rareripe, Bellegarch, 

 Prince's Paragon, Oldmixon Cling, N. Y. 

 White Cling, Buist's Yellow, Redcheek 

 Melocoton, Brevoort's Morris, Bergen's Yel- 

 low, Crawford's Late Melocoton, Druid 

 Hill, Monstrous Parie, Smock Late. 



These varieties were principally obtained 

 from the Hudson, and ripen in lat. 32°, (12 

 or 14 miles nearly east of Vicksburg,) from 

 about 20th of June to Sept. 1st. Here are 

 nineteen fruits, ripening in, say 75 days; 

 and if there are indigenous peaches, from 

 Mason and Dixon's line to the Rio Grande, 

 ripening in succession superior to those, I 



