THE MAGAZINE 



O F 



HORTICULTURE- 



DECEMBER, 1845. 



ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 



Art, I. Results of ex'periments in the cultivation of the 

 Pear Tree in the Southern States ; icith some remarks on 

 the dicBcious character of the Strawberry. By Rob't Chish- 

 OLM, Esq., Secretary of the Beaufort Agricultural Society, 

 Beaufort, S. C. 



As I have, this summer, for the first time, gathered fruit 

 from pear trees I imported from Europe a few years since, I 

 have thought that the results of my experiments, as obtained 

 thus far, might be interesting to you, and encourage those 

 who have begun already to cultivate this fruit to continue, 

 and induce others to begin at once. 



My situation is on what is called a sea island, where fine 

 long cotton is grown, near this place, in sight of the ocean, 

 across St. Helena Sound. The land, on which are my trees, 

 is low, being very near and very little above high tide mark, 

 cold clay, and originally very poor when I planted the trees. 

 I dug holes in the clay about two and a half to three feet 

 across, and about eighteen to twenty-four inches deep, into 

 which my trees were set at the proper depth, and then filled 

 in with one part of black mould and partially decomposed 

 oyster shells, taken from small mounds near ancient Indian 

 wigwams, and two parts of mould from under trees in the 

 woods or forest ; (live oak furnishes the best mould that I 

 can get.) I had one St. Germain weighing one pound and 

 one ounce ; several weighing one pound, and a little more 

 and less ; one Bergamotte de Soulers or Solers, weighing 

 nearly three quarters of a pound, the only one I have w.eighed, 

 and without any selection whatever, as it is the only one I 



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