136 THE MAGAZINE OF HORTICULTURE. 



One tree, from which I pulled in one season nearly two bush- 

 els of good oranges, and the trunk of which was nearly eight 

 inches in diameter, was killed to the ground. Their roots, 

 however, survive, and they spring up with surprising vigor, 

 making shoots sometimes eight feet in one season, and are 

 again in bearing condition in three or four years, if no further 

 mishap occur. 



Pears. — Several varieties have been planted out here, but 

 they have not, as yet, matured any fruit ; they come into 

 blossom at uncertain seasons of the year, according to the 

 weather ; if the winter keeps pretty regularly cold, they do 

 not bud out until a proper time to blossom; but it is some- 

 times so mild in January that they bloom and get destroyed 

 with frost in February and March. When the summer has 

 been so dry as to severely check their growth, they come into 

 blossom in October, and are soon lost in the cold gusts of 

 November. 



Plums. — The imported varieties have never done any 

 good, and are subject to the unnatural phenomenon described 

 above. There is a native plum which bears abundantly, but 

 it is smaller in size than the Royal Gage, and inferior in fla- 

 vor to the Damson. It is also subject to falling off before 

 ripe : by cultivation it is greatly improved. 



Peaches. — There are several varieties of this fruit ; such 

 as have been raised from seed here succeed very well ; they 

 grow very rapidly from seed, and in three years are large 

 trees bearing fruit : but the trees generally are short lived. 



Pomegranates. — This shrub thrives very well in this lati- 

 tude, and indeed seems to be of easy culture, bearing fruit 

 freely where there is any cultivation bestowed. 



Apples. — Those raised in northern latitudes do not succeed 

 here ; but several varieties, natives or raised from seed here, 

 mature for summer use ; but I believe there are none adapted 

 for keeping. 



Apricots, like foreign plums, have never done any good ; 

 the trees live, but make very stunted growth. I have not 

 even seen them blossom. There are two things which act 

 unfavorably on this fruit, viz., the extreme hot sun and the 



