On the Virginia Crab Apple. 395 



POSTSCRIPT. 



A few years ago, when general Sumter, of South 

 Carolina, was in the senate, he told me that the juice 

 of his Hughes's crab apples was so rich as to be dum- 

 my. Quere, if a transfer of apples of thin, meagre 

 juice to the south, and those of rich, thick or viscous 

 juice to the north, would not produce a valuable im- 

 provement ? T. P. 



