that a foreigner ooulJ not live in our climnte, or that nniinals brought from a colder climate 

 wouKl siekon and die immediately. 



Mr. ArKLErK came to this State a few years ago from Ohio, and he seems to have held his OAvn 

 pretty well. "When I first met with him, ho was selling stock from the above Slate, yet not a 

 word did I hear him say about their being vnsnitcd for us. "Uut a change came o'er the s))irit 

 of his dreams" since he got among us, and now nothing "brought south more than a degree or 

 two" will begin to do. " Circumstances alter cases," however, and he is now in for the " nalivct 

 exclusively" determined to make these bantlings of his own fruitful. Hoping they may prove 

 fruitful to purchasers, and that we shall have a good account of them a few years hence, and not 

 like many that I have known set out the fir.«t year hidden in gra.ss, and set fire to "clear off" in 

 the fall, "growinrf less and less" until they finally gave up the ghost, and the cry was raised that 

 our country was " not adapted to fruit." S. W. Montgomei'.y. — Hinds county, Miss. 



Reproduction of Varieties of Fruit. — "While a resident of New England, we were often struck 

 with the distinct and marked difference in the Wesfjield Seek-no-further. This apple was famous 

 throughout the whole region of our obsei'vation, and was universally known and regarded as a 

 first rate fruit ; but, though it always possessed certain cardinal characteristics by which it was 

 easily recognized as the Seck-no-further, it was often quite dissimilar in minor respects. In some 

 mstances, it was a late winter fruit; in others, it ripened in autumn. On some trees it was large, 

 on others, medium sized ; and on others, small. In some cases the color of the fruit was a fine red, 

 extending over nearly the whole surface ; in others, a lighter red was spread over one side only ; 

 and again, it was distinctly striped Avith red on a yellow ground. The form was generally 

 conical, but sometimes round. The stem longer and more slender in specimens from some trees 

 than from others. The flesh, though generally tender, was sometimes firm ; and the trees occured 

 not unfrequently in old orchards, a large proportion, if not all, of which were seedling trees. 



These are our impressions relative to this fruit, which, in some respect?, may be erroneous ; but 

 believing that similar features pertain, in a greater or less degree, to other varieties, we have been 

 induced to state them as our recollection best serves us. "We were at a loss to account for so great 

 differences in a well known fruit, except by supposing it to be more strongly disposed to be repro- 

 duced from its own seeds than most fruits. 



On a visit to Torringford, Conn., a gentleman assured me he possessed a genuine Winter Golden 

 Sweeting. This apple being one of our early and especial favorites, we procured scions, not 

 believing at the time, however, we were obtaining a winter fruit with the characteristic qualities 

 of the Golden Sweeting, and inserted them on a bearing tree previous to our removal to Iowa. 

 Two years afterward we visited the tree in October, and were pleased to find two or three fruits 

 bore an exact resemblance to the Golden Sweeting, except that they were green, hard, and appa- 

 rently possessed of keeping qualities which, through circumstances, we were unable to test. 



"We learn from an intelligent nurseryman from Indiana, that several seedlings of the Pryors 

 Red, a popular western apple, have been produced, which bare so close a resemblance to the 

 parent variety, both in habit of tree and quality of fruit, as not to be easily distinguished. "We 

 think the Pryor's Red more neai"ly like the Wesfjield Seek-no-furtlier in its qualities, though evi- 

 dently a different fruit, than any apple wo have ever seen. 



In cross-fertilizing, it seems the qualities of the new fruit may bo prodeterminod by knowing 

 those of the varieties from which it is ]>roduced, and this, whether the parent varieties have been 

 extended by grafting or not; while it is stated that seedling varieties lose their power of repro- 

 ducing themselves by their seeds, after being grafted on other stocks. 



If it is true that seedling fruits are in a greater or less degree likely to be reproduced by their 

 seeds, why not go back to the original tree of our best varieties, where they are known to exist 

 — for instance, the Hewtown Pippin, Northern Spy, and Early Joe apples, and the Tyson, iJix, 

 Seckel, and other pears — and by enclosing the blossoms in the same manner as in hybridizing, 



