FRUIT CULTURE IN UPPER GEORGIA. 



count}^ where it will be found in great perfection. The " Lemon Cling," also of southern 

 origin, docs not suffer so much — while " George 4th," " Newingtons," " Prentiss' Red 

 Cling," and others, break down. "Van Zandt's Superb" is in perfection with us now, 

 (July 10,) measuring from nine to eleven inches in circumference. I do not believe that 

 peaches will succeed at the south near the coast, and this may be one reason why they fail 

 in Mobile. I know a gentleman within a mile of the city of Savannah, who has a large 

 orchard, well stocked with fine varieties. His trees look remarkably well, and set fruit 

 abundantly in the spring, but he has never matured any of consequence. To the fine va- 

 rieties of foreign apples named bj'^ Mr. White, as succeeding well at the south, I would 

 add the " Red Astrachan" and " Boston Russet." A clerical friend residing near Griffin, 

 (about fifty miles north of this,) told me in 1849, when fresh from the Boston Fair, that 

 he could have beaten their finest Russets with fruit from his own trees. My trees are 

 young, but the *' Yellow Bellefleur" and Gravenstein promise well, in addition to some 

 others not generally known here. 



As for Pears — judging from the favor in soil and climate, asked in your work on 

 "Fruits and Fruit Trees," for many varieties, and the perfection in which they are easily 

 produced here, I have arrived at the conclusion that our's is the better climate for this 

 fruit. The gentleman to whom I have alluded above, imported about seven years ago, the 

 following varieties of Pear, all on Quince roots. " Louise Bonne de Jersey," Beurre de 

 Amalis, Citron de Carmes, Passe Colmar, Easter Beurre, Beurre Diel, Glout Morceau, 

 Vicar of Winkfield, Doyenne Gris, and one other by mistake, Avithout a name. He plan- 

 ted thein in a close brown chestnut soil. He pruned the branches but little, and never 

 touched the roots. In five years the trees, (which were small when planted,) were in full 

 bearing, and with the exception of one, wlilch is diseased, they produce yearly as much 

 fine fruit as they can hold. But what will you think when I tell you that his " Easter 

 Beurre" is in perfection here earl}' in October! The Vicar of Winkfield" ripened earlier. 

 My own trees are all young. Among those in bearing are Dearborn's Seedling, Louise 

 Bonne de Jersey, Citron des Carmes, St. Gliislain, Julienne, Rushmore, Andrews, Beurre 

 de Cnpiamont, Compte de Lawry, Buffum, Seckel, Knight's Monarch, Bartlett, Femish 

 Beauty and Napoleon. Many of these are on quince roots. 



I observe that your correspondent, Mr. Pardkk, distinguishes between the fertilizers 

 which produce the vine, and those which promote fruitfulness in the strawberry. I visit- 

 ed Doctor Bayne in October last, and procured, in his neighborhood, a few genuine plants 

 of Alice Maud Strawberry. I planted them out in November, and they have given me 

 nothing e.vcept most luxuriant vines. They were treated with guano and barn yard ma- 

 nure. Burr's Mammoth, planted at the same time, but not highly manured, has produced 

 fruit abundantly. Perhaps I have fallen into the ver}^ error to which your correspondent 

 alludes. "With other varieties I succeed well. Doctor Bayne's cabbages, of which he 

 speaks, had probably ceased to grow, before they were overtaken by the severe frost of 

 the last most extraordinary winter, and were indebted to that circumstance for their pre- 

 servation. The thermometer stood with us 20 degrees below the freezing point, and I lost 

 hundreds of cauliflowers and cabbages, all in a growing state, and either headed or head- 

 ing. 



I had rose bushes, for the first time in my life, killed to the ground, and Lilliputian 

 Chr3'santhemuras, which I planted out in November. These plants were all in a growing 

 state, and I suppose on that account were killed. Evcrj^ Fig tree I own, embracing eight 

 or ten varieties, was killed to the ground, with the exception of a variety known he 

 the Celestial, but which I think is the Angelique. Almost ever}' peach tree was i 



