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Crimson. 

 Aekbar, (Gauies'.) 

 Ardeiis, (Foster's.) 

 Brilisli Hero, (Noyes'.) 

 Gigantic, (Hancock's.) 

 Mount Etna, (Hoyle s.) 

 Hybla, (Foster's.) 

 Mogul, (Gaines'.) 

 Pompev, (Hovlf's.) 

 Pluto, (Tliurtell's.) 

 Crion. 



Rising Sun, (Gaines'.) 

 Sunrise, (Lyne's.) 



Standard of Perfection, (Nich- 

 ols'.) 



Purple. 

 Agrippina, (Caltleugh's.) 

 Con.-ervative, (Garth's. ) 

 Negress, (Garth's.) 

 Sir'R. Peel, (Foster's.) 

 Sullau, (Garth's.) 



Fancy. 

 Anais, (Foster's.) 

 Aurora, (Beck's.) 

 Beauty, (Foster's.) 



Beauty of Wallhamstow, 



(Pamplin's.) 

 Beaufort Cliief 

 Gipsey, (Foster's.) 

 John. 



Jessie, (Foster's.) 

 Jewess, (Foster's.) 

 liady Flora 



Oddity. 



Painted Lady. 



Sidonia. 



Splenii. 



Trafalgar. 



Tricolor. 



Fuique. 



Victoria. 



I am yours, most respectfully, 



Wm. Chorlton, 

 Gardener to J. C. Green, Esq., Staten Islanc 



FRUIT TREES FOR THE SOUTH. 



BY W. A. WHITFIELD, SHELBY, MISS. 



Mr. Editor : — I hope I shall be pardoned 

 in differing from the opinion of Dr. Philips, 

 of Edwards, respecting the adaptability of 

 northern fruits to every portion of the south. 

 Jeffreys is right, so far as this region is 

 concerned, and I should be tempted to tender 

 him my thanks, but that I find myself in the 

 condition of the Iri.shman who discovered the 

 mud-hole himself. I feel confident that Dr. 

 Philips has not learned the result of various 

 attempts to raise fine northern peaches in this 

 vicinity. We have no use fur the varieties 

 mentioned in his article on page 403, includ- 

 ing his favtirite Elmira. Nature has given us 

 an atmosphere in which no foreign peach tree 

 ever yet tried has proved itself profitable. 

 Along the gulf and lake region of ^lississip- 

 pi, within the last eight years, more than 30,- 

 000 dollars have been expended in procuring, 

 planting and cultivating peach trees brought 

 from northern states, and from the interior re- 

 gion of Mississippi — many from the immedi- 

 ate vicinity of Dr. Philips himself, in the 

 Vicksburg gardens — including 54 varieties, 

 upon every kind of soil; clay, clay-loam, sand, 

 sandy-loam, flint and ferruginous gi-avels, al- 

 luvial and primitive, new and old, poor and 

 fertile, naturally so and made so by art, limed 

 and unlimed, with the trees pruned and un- 

 pruned, cultivated and in grass — and all — all, 

 without one solitary exception, have failed. 



utterly failed, to the no small discomfiture of 

 those who had built castles in the air ujion 

 the proceeds of fine northern peaches sold in 

 the neighboring market at sis dollars per do- 

 zen. Thus, sir, the work of seven or eight 

 years — trees mammoth in size, are being con- 

 tinually hewed down, to give place to the 

 more profitable seedling of the country. 



The history of all foreign* trees is the 

 same. First year — If the tree has formed 

 fruit buds l)efore its removal, and has suffi- 

 cient root with a favorable spring, it will ma- 

 ture tolerably well two, three or half a dozen 

 peaches, well flavored and of medium size. 

 Time of blooming, from middle of February 

 till middle of March ; makes extraordinary 

 growth. 



Second year — Blooms from six weeks to 

 two months later — sets well, but without 

 leaves to pi-otect the fraits from the burning 

 suns of May — it all drops ofi". I have seen a 

 few hold on for two weeks after the time of 

 ripening at Vicksburg — 200 miles north of 

 this — but what was there a fine, luscious 

 peach, four inches in diameter, is here a mi--;- 

 erable drivel, from the size of your thumb to 

 an inch in diameter. We ought not to expect 

 fruit here the middle of June, from trees 

 which will not bloom until the first of May. 



I believe, however, Mr. Editor, our coun - 



* Foreign distinguished from Creole. 



