ON THE THEORY OF PRUNING. 



much after the first of October, when pears and figs are by no means plenty, a few va 

 rieties of good apples would be very acceptable. The next good apple begins to ripen 

 about the first of November, viz: 



10. Buff or Granny Buff. — Fruit — of the largest size, irregular roundish, flattened 

 and slightly angular in form. Skin — thick, ground color yellow, but striped and over- 

 spread with red, very dark next the sun, marked with a lew greenish russet spots. Stem 

 three-quarters of an inch long in a medium cavity. Calyx in a large irregular basin. 

 Flesh — yellowish, and when well ripened tender and excellent, but sometimes quite the 

 reverse; lacks richness and aciditj'j season November to March; indispensable. 



11. Virginia Greening. — Already described in proceedings of Congress of Fruit 

 Growers at New-York. A good fruit, keeps all winter; indispensable; a better keeper 

 than the Buff. 



12. IVaddeVs Hall. — An oblong fruit of medium size, very fragrant— striped with red; 

 of fair quality, bears young, and decidedly the latest keeping apple we have. 



13. Green Mountain Pippin. — A fine early winter apple of excellent quality, large 

 size, roundish, green, and very juicy; comes into use with the Buff and a better fruit. 



The above list I think will be found reliable. There are others which I have hopes will 

 be worthy of adding to the list, such as Limberting, Jackson, Father Abram, Rawle's 

 Jennett, Gravenstein, Meigs, (a celebrated long keeper,) Prjj^or's Red; but I have not yet 

 seen the fruit. I purchased in a market wagon from North Carolina in the month of No- 

 vember, two years since, some fine Rhode Island Greenings, and I have strong hopes that 

 this too may be added to the list. 



I have seen fruit here of American Summer Pearmain, Sweet Bough, Alexander, Bald- 

 win, Danvers Winter Sweet, Newtown Pippin, Boston Russelt, Spitzenberg, and many 

 others; but they are in some one or more particulars, so much inferior to those described, 

 some of them rotting before they ripen, others unproductive — that at present I do not 

 think any of them deserve to be added to the list. The early apples from the north do 

 far the best. 



You will observe that there is not a single sweet apple in the list. I am trying the 

 Ladies Sweeting, but I do not know of a single sweet apple of the many brought in, that 

 has hitherto proved at all satisfactorj'. I am told that there is a good native autumn va- 

 riety, but have not met with it. 



Should j'ou desire, I shall be happy to give you a few notes on our other fruits, particu- 

 larly the pear, which is here raised, I think, with more ease than the apple. Yours very 

 respectfully, William N. White. 



Athens, Ga., May 31, 1852. 



[We are greatly indebted to our correspondent for the foregoing — one of the best com- 

 munications on fruit culture we have ever received from the south. More of the same qua- 

 lity will be most welcome. Ed.] 



CLOSING REMARKS ON THE THEORY OF PRUNING. 



BY L. YOUNG, LOUISVILLE, KY. 



Dear Sir — I shall close the crude and desultory remarks upon the subject at the head 

 article, which were at first proposed by a few conmients upon certain of the 

 in the arts of pruning and training, which in a former number I have styled 



