THE CANADIAN IIOIITICULTUKIST. Ill 



same reason he speaks well of the Newman's, Decaradeuc's, Harper's, 

 Brill, and Hattie, all descended from the Chickasaw Hum. 



Among the apples especially recommended for market orchards here, 

 are many unfamiliar sorts. For example, among the winter varieties are 

 the Hockett's Sweet, Mangum, Nickajack, Eomanite, Shockley, Yates, 

 Santa and Black Warrior, Pears suifer much from blight, and hence 

 are not very extensively grown; but grapes and small fruits are 

 generally cultivated and usually give good returns; figs also thrive 

 well in the oj)en air in this section. AVith the mild and genial climate 

 which middle Georgia enjoys, fruit culture of every sort should succeed. 

 The present condition of society, however, is not very favorable to the 

 development of industrial interests of any sort. The dignity of labor 

 is much undervalued. By many of the whites manual labor is looked 

 upon as in some measure degrading; and the negroes as a class are so 

 lazy that they do not care to exert themselves unless their necessities 

 drive them to it, and then tlieir wants are so few that an occasional 

 trifling effort will furnish them with such subsistence as will content 

 them. These blacks are the most jovial people one can meet with, 

 always light hearted and merry, no matter how great their poverty; 

 often without a cent in their pockets and hardly knowing where 

 their next meal is to come from, nevertheless they are as frolicksome 

 as young lambs, and very much prefer basking in the sunshine, stand- 

 ing around the railway stations or steamboat wharves to engaging in 

 any active employment. * 



A morning ramble with a friend brought us to a part of the city 

 where the "poor whites" rendezvous, who raise small quantities of 

 produce in the mountainous parts of Georgia and the adjoining State 

 of Tennessee, and bring their crops here to market. Finding one of 

 these remarkably slow looking people, who had just arrived with a 

 few bushels of apples in his waggon, we ventured to interview him. 

 We found that he had left his home, some hundred m^es distant, 

 eight days previous, with thirty bushels of apples. Some he had sold 

 on the way at one dollar per bushel, the others he expected to sell 

 here at seventy-five to eighty cents. The varieties he had were the 

 Limbertwig, Abram and Howard or Nickajack, all very good sorts, but 

 they had been poorly kept, and were not very presentable. Having 

 finished his marketing and purchased his supplies, he would trudge 

 his weary way over bad roads for another eight days before he coidd 



