90' HISTORY OF OHIO. 



NATURALIZED TREES, ETC. 



Besides our native trees, shrubs, plants, flowers, vegetables, 

 and grasses, we have imported nearly all those, which are cul- 

 tivated, in the eastern states. When introduced, from places 

 lying in our parrallels of latitude, they even improve by the 

 change, of soil and longitude. 



The apple, pear, cherry, peach, quince, &c. do well here, 

 and produce new varieties, sometimes, which it would be well 

 to give back, to our eastern friends, as a restored loan, and as 

 the interest on the principal which we have borrowed from 

 them. Our western fruits, are delicious, and they are emi- 

 grating, like their owners, to the far west, where we hope 

 their fortunes will be made better, by their removal. The 

 peach, pear and plum tree, are often destroyed, in old ground?, 

 by a white worm existing in vast numbers about its roots. 

 A thorough washing of the tree, with hot water, and by digging 

 away the earth from the roots, early in the spring, and as often 

 as necessary, pouring on the ground and on the very roots of 

 the tree, boiling hot water, will certainly kill the worms and 

 preserve the trees. In Tennessee the same worm, we be- 

 lieve, destroys the apple tree. 



The peach, originally brought from Persia, perhaps, flour- 

 ishes most, in a southern climate. It does better in west Ten- 

 nessee, and in Alabama, than in Ohio. The tree grows larger, 

 lasts longer, and the fruit is larger and better, there also; 

 whereas our apple tree, and its fruit do best here. We can 

 exchange with those neighbors, by means of our steamers. 

 We can carry them, our apples, and bring back their dried 

 peaches and their cottons. 



The potatoe, (which we believe, was found in latitude 40° 

 south, in South America, which in temperature, is equal to 45° 

 north latitude,) does not always succeed here as well as it does 

 farther north, either in quantity or quality. Our summers are 

 too long for its growth. It is quite disposed to grow awhile, 

 stop, start again and grow, and start again, producing a rotten 

 inside; an unpleasant and unhealthy plant. This depends on 



