WILL PKAIl CULTURE BE SUCCESSFUL? 



Dowiiiii"'s "Groit liiirarreau" was one or tlie other of these varieties, and that the 

 oriLrinal " llreat liigarreau" tree at Coldenliatn, whieh is an Mtiha/rh, was sold there 

 by my fat^^cr; and on a recent visit from Mr. ('Las. l>owning, he recognized its 

 identity with the Lartre Red Prool. At that period no other Nursery in the Union 

 u.^^ed the MahaK:b Stock but ourselves. 



Culture of the Olive. — The Olive will support our ordinary winters here, by being 

 bound in straw, and will, at any place South of WiIniin<;ton, N. C, attain a de- 

 vehtpnient suthcient to become a valuable fruit-bearing tree. 1 noticed in the eleva- 

 ted and temperate regions of Mexico, many extensive orchards of the Olive, but 

 seemingly neglected and going to decay, like everything else in that benighted 

 country, — a decay from which even their Churches were not exempt. As to grafting 

 the Olive on the Privet (Ligustrum), it would be a most useless affair, for although 

 life could be retained, there could be no useful development. You might as well 

 ingraft an Apple tree on any diminutive Hawthorn. The only tree suitable to 

 ingraft it on is the American Olive, but it would be much better not to graft it ct 

 all. 



WILL PEAR CULTURE BE SUCCESSFUL? 



BY B., NEW JERSEY. 



HIS much controverted question seems to have little chance 

 of being settled in the present general state of deficient 

 and rough cultivation. All that the author of these re- 

 marks has seen of pear culture in the United States, 

 satisfies him entirely, that this valuable fruit must suc- 

 ceed here far better than in Europe, under good cultiva- 

 tion, and by a judicious selection of such varieties, foreign 

 and native, as experience has shown us are fitted to our 

 climate and soil. 



But if some understand by "cultivation" the mere 

 planting of a fruit tree, in holes as small as cigar boxes, in any soil or condition, and 

 of any variety, certainly the cultivation of the pear cannot and will not succeed, 

 any more than melon or lima bean culture would succeed in all kinds of soil, among 

 weeds and brushwood. 



But if a judicious selection of varieties, adapted to your soil, aspect, and climate; 

 if the good management of your grounds, the healthy stocks, and a little care iu 

 praning and cleaning will not make your pear trees grow, you may safely conclude, 

 that the cultivation of any other fine product of nature and art combined stands no 

 better chance; "and that there is an unaccountable something, either in the 

 subsoil, or climate. Thus far I have not seen in the States an?/ unsuccessful 



