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to prevent it, the disease seldom appears. In comparing the time of 

 ripening with Downing's work where the varieties are recognized, 

 they ripen 10 or 12 days earlier than at Newburgh, or New- York. 



Of Pears, Plums and Cherries, so little has been done here, that 

 little can be said respecting them ; but they are beginning to be cul- 

 tivated, and after a few years experience we may be able to report 

 progress. 



YARDLEY TAYLOR. 

 B. Pahsons, Secretary of the 



American Congress of Fruit Qrawers. 



GEORGIA. 



REPORT OF WM. A. WHITE. 



Ma&shall p. Wilder, Esq., 



President of National Convention of Fruit Qroxoers : 



Dear Sir : — I enclose herewith lists of fruits which have been 

 tried Avith us in Athens, Georgia, and found fully to sustain their 

 character, as described in Downing's work on Fruits. These varie- 

 ties have been fully tested in the grounds of M. A. Ward, M. D., 

 and in those of the late James Camak, Esq., former editor of the South- 

 ern Cultivator. A severe frost with us, in April, the present year, 

 after the fruit had set, prevented us from having the first trial of 

 many celebrated fruits not in these lists, which this year gave for the 

 first time promise of bearing. 



Apples. — Nearly all the best northern fruits have been tried with 

 us, and they almost without exception sustain their character for ex- 

 cellence ; but our seasons are so long that all the winter fruits ripen 

 off early in the fall. We have but one apple that will keep well 

 into the winter. This is the Virginia Greening, first described by G. 

 B. Hapgood, in the Southern Cultivator, whose description I copy. 



Virginia Greening — Medium size, green color, with dark, clouded 

 spots ; matures late, keeps well till spring, and even into summer, in 

 this climate ; subject to fewer failures than most other apples ; tree 

 an early and good bearer, and not liable to disease ; flesh tender, 

 quite juicy, early in the season, but grows dryer and tougher in 

 spring. 



