Southern Horticultural Trip. 1 3 1 



are specimens of all the known varieties of the grape on trial, we noticed 

 the copings on the top of the trellises, which Mr. Saunders considers a 

 preventive to mildew. 



At Richmond we had only time to call on Mr. "Williams and Col. Frank 

 C. Ruffin, editors of " The Southern Planter and Farmer," an ably-managed 

 paper. The colonel is widely and favorably known in the agricultural 

 world : and we were earnestly entreated by him to attend the meeting of 

 the State Agricultural Society that evening, now to be reinstated on its 

 former popular foundation ; but time did not permit. 



At Wilmington, N.C., we were most hospitably received by Mr. Edward 

 Kidder and his partner Mr. Martin. In the garden of Mr. Kidder, in the 

 open ground, we saw a Cape jessamine seven feet high, spreading eight 

 feet, and stem six inches thick. The laurustinus, camellias, and roses were 

 coming into bloom. Oka fragrans, Nerimn spkndens, Mespilus jap07iica, 

 Afeirosideros, and hedges of Pittosporuvi and Euonyinus jfaponica, were 

 standing nobly out doors. Violets were in bloom without any protection, 

 and mignonette with only a box placed over it. In the greenhouse were 

 Poinseitia pulchcrrima and Russdia juncea, each ten feet high, planted in 

 the ground. 



In the garden of Mr. Lippitt we saw a Pitiosporum ten feet high, with 

 head twelve feet spread, and stem ten inches thick ; Euonymus JapoJiica 

 twelve feet high, head eight feet spread, stem twelve inches thick ; white fig 

 twenty-five feet high, top thirty feet spread,- stem sixteen inches thick ; a 

 Scuppernong grape-vine thirty-five years old, with two stems six and seven 

 inches thick ; a camellia ten feet high and seven feet spread. In Mr. 

 Martin's garden was a Cloth-of-Gold rose fifteen feet high ; and in an adjoin- 

 ing garden a Magnolia grandiflora thirty feet high, twenty-five feet spread, 

 with two stems, each fifteen inches thick, supposed to be fifty or sixty years 

 old. At Wilmington, also, we first noticed the water and willow oaks, both 

 evergreen. But the most remarkable production of this region is the 

 Scuppernong grape, which, in the sandy and apparently barren soil which 

 prevails in the coast region from the northern limit of North Carolina to 

 the extremity of Florida, finds abundant nutriment, and from Wilmington 

 to Savannah grows to the enormous size mentioned above, and even 

 larger. It is trained on strong horizontal trellises or arbors raised to a con- 



