advantages of the eastern pert of the United States for fruit 
erowing purposes were realized as eaily as the first part of 
the nineteenth century. The cultivatiou of the apple in the 
southern part of this section, hdwever, did not keep apace 
with the advancing civilization. The following letter printed 
in Hover's VNarazine in the year loss, gives an admirable des- 
crintion of conditions that lasted until comparatively recent 
vears in Nervlend, 
"Tn a brief newspaper account of the late Horticultural 
Exhibition at Foston, which has fallen under my eye, it has 
been see with surprise and admiration that apples and pears 
are cultivated in that vecinity in greater variety than most 
people suppose to exist in all of the world. How different are 
the tastes and habits of your people, in «his respect, from 
those wlio reside soutn of the Chesapeake, where estates of 900 
or even a 1000 acres, exnibit no sign of anything Lixe system- 
atic horticulture. Instead of one hunared ana firty two varietie 
eof pears, and twenty six sorts of apples, as presented by Mr. 
Manning of Salem, it is by no means uncommon to find in he 
south large estates vithout a single choice pear cr paliatabiec 
apple on then. 
"True, vou may see some of them near the old family man- 
sions, the stumps and decaying remnants of large old orchards 
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