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the other gives them inore or less attention daily. 

 Now mark the difference: The earcless cultivator 

 came to me yesterday morning, saying that he be- 

 gan to believe that he should have to abandon the 

 pear culture, as hall' his trees were dying or dead 

 of the blight. On going into his garden, I I'ound 

 twenty trees very badly attacked, and some of 

 them already quite dead. He had not taken the 

 trouble to amputate a single limb. Afterwards I 

 went into the garden of my neighbor on the othrr 

 side, and on going over his place found his trees all 

 healthy, and not one dead. He told me that his 

 trees had been even more badly attacked than 



" 's, (my first neighbor,) for he had taken some 



pains to examine the progress of the disease in the 

 neighboring garden; but that he had spent ten 

 minutes "per day, for the past month, the first thing 

 in the morning, in cutting out every bit of blight as 

 soon as it made its appearance. The consequence 

 was, that the blight had ceased in his trees, while 

 it was still in full play in our neighbor's; and he 

 had not lost a single tree, or even any considerable 

 portion of a tree, while our neighbor had lost seve- 

 ral outright. " Cutting and burniiiir immediately," 

 he therefore recommends as the only remedy yet 

 known to him for the insect blight. Yours. Nurth 

 River, July, 1848. 



GaEDEN CtJLTTJRE OF INDIAN CoRN. — ThoSS of 



your readers who cultivate their vegetables in a con- 

 tracted space, or in worn-cut soil, will be glad to 

 know, (if not already aware of it,) that guano 

 acts most speedily and beautifully on the growth of 

 this plant, applied in any stage of its growth, from 

 the time it has two leaves till it is in full tassel. 



I have a square of sweet corn, planted for the 

 table, this year, on which I have tested it fairl)'. 

 The ground was in fine order at planting. When 

 the corn was 2 feet high, I applied, to one- half the 

 patch, guano, at the rate of two fable-spoonsful! to 

 each liill. When the corn began to '' top out," I 

 repeated the dose, in both cases applying it after 

 stirring the soil, and just before a rain. The effect 

 is very satisfactory: I have not only gained in the 

 size and quality of the ears on the part treated with 

 guano, but I think after counting the rows, and 

 comparing them, that I have also a third more ears 

 in number, on all those plants on which the guano 

 was used. These plants have alone attained to a 

 size nearly half as large again as the others, with 

 remarkably dark-green foliage. Yours. S. Bal- 

 timore, July 14, 1848. 



Fruit Culture at the South — J. J. Down- 

 ing, Esq.^-Dear Sir: I have had the pleasure of 

 eating some peaches from the trees I got from the 

 North and planted in February, 1847. The Early 

 Tillotson began to ripen (was ripe) on the lOih day 

 of this month, and from the few specimens on the 

 trees this season, I think they will be as good as 

 could be desired. 



My Early Yorks are also ripe, and are splendid. 

 I have from 600 to TO'J peach trees planted in Feb- 

 ruary, 1847, and I do not think finer trees can be 

 found in any part of the world. I have them on a 

 very level piece of land, and in handsome rows, 

 and they are at this time a beautiful sight to look 

 at. My tipple trees are also doing very well indeed. 



Tliey were planted at tiie same time the peach 

 trees were, and (juite a number of them have from 

 one to a dozen apples on them: fully two-thirds of 

 the Early Harvest trees have fruit, which promises 

 to be very fine. This is a vaiiety that I am de- 

 cidedly pleased with; it seems to be the very thing 

 for this climate; every tree is just as strong ana 

 healthy as I could wish. The Baldwin, "i'ellow 

 Bellefleur, Maiden's Blush. Dutch Mignonne, and 

 Beauty of Kent, look very healthy, and I think will 

 do well; the Fall Pii'piii, also. 



My pear trees are doing pretty well. Those on 

 quince slocks are doing very well, with the excep- 

 tion of the Paquency and Beurre d'Aumalis Pan* 

 ache; they will not thrive with me on quince stocks. 

 The Glout Morceau seems to §row very reluctantly 

 on quince roots. All the rest of my varieties ap- 

 pear to be pretty much at homo on the quince. Tlie 

 Cohr.ar d'Aremherg, however must take the palm 

 thus I'ar; it does very well indeed. I have two 

 specimens of the fruit of this variety, on trees plant- 

 ed in February last, and they are splendid; 1 think 

 they would at this tune weigh about I lb. each, 

 and will no doubt be much larger when ripe. 



I observe that my pears on quince have a great 

 propensity to send out shoots from near the ground, 

 and 1 have so far let them remain. Is this right^ 

 or not ? Your friend. R. H., Mooile, Ala., June 

 20, 1S48, 



P. S. The Black Prince proves with me a first- 

 rate strawberry, in all respects. 



[All shoots beloio the graft should be taken 

 olf.— Ed ] 



German Greeks or Siberian Kale.— We have 

 received f;om Me-srs. Thorburn&Co , Secd.smen, 

 New- York, a package of seeds of this vegcable, 

 which we shall test in our garden. The following 

 memorsindum of culture and use accompanied the 

 package :— = 



" Sow broad -cast in August, in a light, rich, and 

 rather moist soil, and protect slightly in winter like 

 si)inaeh. It is fit for use and should be cut early in 

 the spring. It grows about the size of a large cab-- 

 base-letiuce, is of a purple color, and equal in ten- 

 derness and quality to Brussells Sprouts." 



Horticulture in Carolina. * « * i liave a 

 vineyard of several acres attended by two French 

 vignerons, but have not yet made wine. I hope, 

 however, the rot will allow, to give wine making 

 a trial the coming season. Foreign grapes, of 

 which I have some twenty-five or thirty varieties, 

 have entirely failed in open culture with me, with 

 the exception of one — a Red Chasselas which is 

 trained against my piazza,, and is therefore shel- 

 tered against our heavy dews. It has borne the 

 seasons without a sign of rot; next year I shall 

 try the plan of une of your cheap vineries. 



I do not mean to enter the list against Mr. Long- 

 worth on the Strawberry question ; that would 

 be a fearful undertaking. But 1 really doubt whe- 

 ther the pistillate plants, duly intermixed with 

 stamiiiate, can produce heavier crops than those 

 which I cultivate, and which are all staminate, 

 (the Carolina pine.) I have a quarter of an acre 



