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northern apples. They sell, generally, higher in the South than 

 oranges. You can buy choice oranges at the fruit stands in New 

 Orleans at twenty-five cents per dozen, when you must pay fifty or 

 sixty cents for a like number of choice Newtown Pippins, Bellflower, 

 or Maiden's Blush. And even the Ben Davis, here as everywhere the 

 popular variety, outsells choice oranges. 



The winter apple, North and West, is a staple ; and I have ob- 

 served that in Illinois lands where the apple was successful, and the 

 farms contained good apple orchards, sold for far more money than 

 ordinary farming lands. The home consumption of the fruit, the 

 demand for export to Europe, and the southern demand, make the 

 business profitable, and many new orchards are being planted. 



But the South has so many new things pressing her attention for 

 adoption, that raising winter apples has never come home to the con- 

 sideration of her horticulturists. We buy northern vinegar made of 

 chemicals ; northern pickles preserved in it. We have been buying 

 our pork packed from hogs raised largely in their orchards ; we buy 

 their cider and champagne cider, and we buy their apples. But it is 

 quite certain that the immense number of northern and western 

 emigrants who are moving from their homes to various places 

 South will not be content to go without apples, when they find they 

 can raise as good here as in their old homes, and even better, as to 

 many varieties. And in less than a quarter of a century you will 

 find large droves of hogs in orchards sodded with Kentucky blue 

 grass ; the orchards the planting of these northern and western 

 emigrants. And there will be plenty of home-made apple cider and 

 home-made cider vinegar, and pickle factories and "apple butter" 

 will abound, and the ever-present and dyspeptic pie. And, like as 

 not, Newtown Pippins will be going from Charlestown, S. C., and 

 Savannah, Ga., to Europe, and the first or early ripe to New York, 

 Boston, Philadelphia and Chicago ; for I firmly believe that not only 

 Piedmont, Va., but the mountains of North and South Carolina, 

 Georgia, East Tennessee and Alabama can raise that celebrated 

 apple. It is a very shrewd bit of advertising to call it the Albemarle 

 Pippin in Virginia, and thus commend it to the world as peculiar in 

 merit in that locality. Georgia is well playing the same game with 

 the Elberta peach, and Crystal Springs, Miss., with her tomatoes, as 

 North Carolina had her "golden belt" for her bright tobacco, and 

 New Jersey, fifty years ago, for her peaches, and Herkimer county, 

 N. Y., for her cheese, and Orange county, N. Y. , for her " Goshen" 

 butter. And I am happy to know how the Albemarle Pippin was 

 exempted by England from the tariff imposed on apples, by special 

 act of Parliament, and admitted duty free on account of the superior 

 excellence of that fruit. 



I have been greatly impressed with the merits of Mr. James 

 Blakey's article in the Southern States -Im August, 1894, on the 

 "Fruit Industry of Piedmont, Virginia." It is particularly valuable 

 in the information conveyed to the practical horticulturist, as to 

 what varieties of apples are successful there. One of the most 

 dispiriting effects of experimenting in fruit culture is in the losses in 

 time and money of fruitless experiment. 



