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comfort the needy and distrcEScd. lie has freqviently filled offices of profit, trust, and honor, hav- 

 ing occujiieJ for severftl yeiirs n sent in the Board of Chosen Freeliolder*, and to wliich he hod 

 boon returned at the election luld on the lotli of this month. As a Trustee of the Sehoolft, a 

 Suivevor of the Highways) and in nil liis local offices, his aim was to do his duty without fear 

 cir faTor. 



" In 1842 Mr. II. was elected one of the Directors of the Mechanics Bank, in tlii-> city, in wliicli 

 lie was continued until his death, and the oflicers and stockholders in the Institution niu.^t feel 

 that tlie los3 to them is very great. 



"To us he was a kind friend, and hia personal efforts on our behalf, proved tliat his sympathy 

 for us was of tlie warmest kind. We were always grateful to liim for his encouragement and 

 assistance, and shall hold his acts and efforts in grateful remembrance. 



"His death, we repeat, creates a void which will not be rtadily filled, for when men of energy 

 and enterprise go off the stage of action, time only can rejilacj them." 



IToRTicrLTURE AT THE SouTii. — Tho followinj? interesting letter was not written fur 

 publication, but has been i)lace(i in our hands by the gentleman to whom it was addressed, 

 with permission to make use of it. The writer is a gentleman of taste and intelligence in 

 liorticultural matters from Maine, who usually si)ends liis winters in Florida. Tlie Quince 

 alluded to is undoubtedly the Chinese (Cydonia sinensia). It rarely bears fruit in the north. 



" Detained here some days for the river to become navigable, I have had an opjiortunit j- to 

 look at horticultural matters in this vicinity. Excepting a garden planted about twentj- years 

 ago by a wealtlij' gentleman of taste, and now containing valuable trees, some of which I shall 

 notice, everything in this line is quite recent. Mr. I'eabody, of iStraAV berry celebrity, cultivates 

 a place in Alabama, a few miles west of this; but as his plants are not now in bearing (thei-« 

 have been two weeks of freezing nights following the severe drouth of summer and autumn,) I 

 have not been to visit it. Ko doubt I should find much to interest me in the methods and extent 

 of his Strawberry culture, covering I think seventeen acres. A gentleman of wealth formerly 

 living here, (J. G. Winter, Esq.,) with some of the taste of his family' on Long Island, (the Win- 

 ters and Princes,) about ten years ago planted I'eaeh orchards, Pear, Ai)ple, and otlier trees, on 

 a well chosen piece of elevated land about five miles from this city. It has passed into the hands 

 of Mr. R. J. Moses, who has made additions and improvements for three years, rendering it highly 

 profitable. The sales from his fruits and vegetables this year amounted to $6,000 — his choice 

 early Peaches finding a market at Savannah and (by steamer thence) at New York at $15 to $20 

 per bushel, long before the Jersey orchards send any. lie proposes to extend his planting until 

 his trees shall cover 100 acres, embracing 20,000 Peaches, and a good variety of Pears, Apples, 

 Figs, Apricots, Grapes, etc., not omitting the Almond, Olive, and others more rare. 



" In the older garden first alluded to, are some finely grown Pear trees of full northern orchard 

 size, (standards,) sound and thrifty, bearing annually abundant crops. Some have been injured 

 by storms, but otherwise I see no evidences of injury or disease, and can not learn that they have 

 ever suffered from blight. Some younger trees, grafted very high so as to leave a long stem 

 exposed to the hot sun of summer, are scalded, showing the necessity of low-working and low- 

 branching in the form of the tree. Tiiere are several varieties among the older trees, from which 

 the others have been worked, but the names are tinkuown to the proprietor, Wm. Brooks, Esq. 

 who has but recently taken an interest in horticulture. He told me tjiat one kind bore a very 

 choice fruit, surpassing all others in excellence of flavor, and bearing over twenty buthels on the 

 full grown tree. I readily recognized it as the Seckcl, from its peculiar growtli, (tlic foliage hav- 

 iTig fallen,) and was glad to see thirty or forty trees of the same just coming into bearing well 

 stocked with fruit-buds. These are ripe for eating in July and sell in market at seven 

 cents per dozen. Another kind, said to weigh IJ lbs. each, and very good, is probably 



