FRUIT GROWING AT THE SOUTH. 



utive tubes, (" such long, narrow necked vessels,") that there is no clanger of growing to 

 excess. 



Neglected cultivation, although enumerated in the books as a means of inducing fruit- 

 fulness, does not deserve favor, and should always give place in the orchard culture of 

 standards upon their own stocks, to retarding the circulation, by bending down the bran- 

 ches. I believe with Jeffries, that precosity should never be encouraged, but believe this 

 method of hastening the bearing state to be attended with fewer evil consequences than 

 almost any other. Suppose the top of a young tree to consist of a few straight switches — 

 these, if bent to a horizontal position, will form fruit buds at the points in a year or two, 

 whilst dormant, or adventitious buds, will put forth at the bases of such switches, and re- 

 fill the center with upright wood growth, the tree forming a head as rapidly, and often 

 with more symmetry, than though the branches had not been bent. 



Breaking the circuit of circulation is effected by wringing the branches. This wrino-in"-, 

 when not so thorough as to produce the death of the parts cut off by the ring, not only 

 induces fruitfulness, but adds, very often, brilliancy to the hues of colored fruits. Pinch- 

 ing, or cutting off tender shoots, and heading-back branches in full leaf, are operations of 

 a nature very similar to wringing— in many such cases the circuit of circulation is inter- 

 rupted for a time, and the roots, after undergoing the labor of sending up the material 

 which has formed the amputated branches, never can receive an equivalent — since, by the 

 act of amputation, the organs which should have digested this equivalent of food are de- 

 stroyed. It is this debilitating tendency in the practice of stripping off the leaves and 

 growing branches, which renders the operation of shortening-in, in the month of August, 

 conducive to fruitfulness — a result exactly opposite to that of the same operation, if ap- 

 plied in Februar}^ or March. 



In conclusion, T may remark, that although in these numbers I may have failed to sug- 

 gest anything new or useful to the readers of your very popular Journal— still, I think 

 they will have been laid under obligations, even for my errors, if they shall induce the 

 modest, but well informed author of the " Fruit Garden" to redeem his pledge, and 

 spread out in your columns the fruits of his extensive reading, and valuable practical ex- 

 perience, upon this more than interesting subject. L. Young. 



Louisville, Ky., 1852. 



FRUIT GROWING AT THE SOUTH. 



BY R. G. PARDEE, PALMYRA, N. Y. 



On the 20th inst. it was my privilege to pay a brief visit to the fine estate of that en- 

 terprising and successful cultivator, Dr. John H. Bayne, of Prince Edward county, Ma- 

 ryland. 



For many years, he has, by a thorough course of observation and experiment, cultivat- 

 ed a portion of his beautiful grounds, and attained to great skill in almost all departments. 



The location is a favorable one for rewarding his efforts, it being only some eight miles 

 from Washington, D. C, which furnishes one of the finest markets in the country. The 

 situation is picturesque and delightful, comprising a variety of scenery — hills and valleys, 

 with all the varieties of soil, from a sandy loam to a coarse gravel and clay. 



Some of his lands, which two years ago were worn out and barren commons, I now 

 found laden with the richest fruits. Over fifteen thousand fruit trees, in the finest con- 



