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with beneficial effects, and the necessity of keeping the orchard 

 ground in good tilth is very apparent. In young orchards it is deemed 

 highly imporlunt to cultivate hoed crops for the first five or six years. 



The most profitable market fruits of good quality which appear in 

 this market, as yet, are as follows : 



J3pples. — Summer — Early Red Margaret, Early Harvest. 

 Autumn — Rambo, White Belle Fleur, Porter. 

 Winter. — Rawles Janet, Green Newtown Pippin, Van- 

 dervere, Peck's Pleasant. 



Pears. — This fruit is so subject to blight, that, at present, almost 

 any variety, which succeeds, is profitable. 



Peaches. — A great variety is produced here, and the trees succeed 

 admirably, when kept clear of the worm. The crop, however, is lia- 

 ble to fail in part from frosts. Among the most profitable of the 

 standard varieties are the Early York, Late Admirable, Incompara- 

 ble, Morris' Red and White, Heath, Washington Cling, Lemon 

 Clingstone, Grosse Mignonne, &c. Some very excellent seedlings 

 are favorites here, and some varieties grow to great size. 



Plums. — The trees are short-lived, and the fruit invariably taken 

 by the curculio. The same may be said of the Nectarines and Ap- 

 ricots. 



Cherries. — The Duke and Morello cherries do very well, but the 

 finer varieties of sweet or heart cherries cannot be said to succeed 

 satisfactorily. The trees grow too rapidly, and after a few years 

 burst their bark, and are seriously injured. 



Quinces. — The climate seems too hot for this fruit, and the trees 

 are very subject to the borer and to insect blight. Small crops only 

 are obtained. 



The list of varieties, especially of apples, which have been tried 

 and condemned, would be large. We may remark that many of the 

 best varieties of fruits of the east, change their character here. As, 

 for example, the Rhode Island Greening becomes an ordinary fall 

 apple; the Jonathan becomes a good fall apple, and so of the Boston 

 Russett, and others. 



The best grape yet cultivated for wine, is the Catawba. This is 

 cultivated to a considerable extent in different parts of the State, and 

 produces a wine resembling Hock. This, however is not deemed sa- 

 tisfactory, and efforts are making to produce new varieties from the 

 seed. Foreign grapes do not succeed in the open air. 



