412 MONTHLY JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURE. 



THE GREEN TWIG PEACH. 



J. S. Skinner, Eaq. Clabksville, Va., Jan. 22. 1847. 



Dear Sir : Believing any communication I can make to you to be of so little 

 importance in itself, and so little worthy to consume even a moment of your time, 

 I have concluded to send you, by way of remuneration for the trouble I occasion, 

 the names of two subscribers. 



You recollect, while we were traveling in Alabama last spring, you gave me 

 a vegetable pear (or Militon), at the same time receiving my promise to commu- 

 nicate to you my success in propagating it. It was given to one of my daughters, 

 who, I fear, nursed it to death. It never vegetated at all. You also recollect I 

 promised to send you a green twig peach-tree ; which would have been sent last 

 fall, by some of our merchants, if it had shed its foliage. I hope to send it in 

 the spring. The small limbs of all peach trees are red, except the green twig. 

 If you bud it on common peach, and let each kind grow equally on the same 

 trunk, it is a very uncommon as well as beautiful tree. 



The one reserved for you is suffered to retain limbs of the common kind, to 

 show the striking contrast. If you choose, you can lop off the red limbs, 

 and permit the green only to grow. The bloom is different from all other kinds 

 of peach blooms, being -perfectly tohite as snow, and resembling more the bloom 

 of the cherry than the peach tree. The fruit is cling-stone and pale yellow, large 

 size and very delicious. 



I did not intend to write more than ten lines, and beg to be excused for it, after 

 wishing your Farmers' Library may circulate throughout the wide expanse of 

 these United States. 



Accept ray best wishes for your health and happiness. 



JNO. LEWIS. 



[The peach tree has been given away, in advance, to a friend, who will cherish it, and 

 gratuitously and freely distiibute its progeny. 



The vegetable spoken of was a very remarkable one, which we met with at the hospita- 

 ble table of Col. Taylor, an old friend residuig on the bank of the Mississippi at Point Coupee. 

 We never saw its like before or since. It was cooked like parsnips, boiled and buttered, 

 and makes a very acceptable addition to the list of vegetable esculents.] 



NATIVE GRAPES OF TEXAS. 



John S. Skinnek, Esq. Bastrop, Texas, October 7, 1846. 



Dear Sir : . . . I take pleasure in sending you some seed of a rery supe- 

 rior grape. Like the Musqueat grass, it is indigenous and peculiar to the JN.VV. 

 Prairies ; and, if propagated from seed and cultivated, will improve it as much as 

 it has done the original Irish potato. The wine-bibbers of the Old Thirteen will 

 be as much indebted to Texas for it as Great Britain is for the potato, while it 

 will add one more link to the never-ending chain of Nature's varieties. 



o. T. 



p. s. — Please send some of the seed to Rev. S. Weller, of North Carolina. 

 He will find them preferable to the Scuppernong, which is an original productiou 

 of N. C. 



Long Preservation of Apples. — At a Horticultural E.xhibition of the Carlton Cottage 

 Gardening Society, in England, in July, 184G, there was exhibited " a specimen of apples, 

 gathered in 1844 by Mr. Liveridge, in an excellent state of preservation." 



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