THE FKUIT GARDEN. 



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many fruit trees can be readily made to grow from cut- 

 tings ; and trees thus propagated come very soon into 

 bearing, and are in general equally healtby with those 

 grown by other modes. 



Our lists below are not very long, and doubtless some 

 varieties named in them will give place to native sorts, 

 when the latter become more widely diffused. Every 

 owner of a choice native fruit should interest himself in 

 disseminating it. Our great deficiency, at present, is in 

 late-keeping fruits, especially of the fall and winter pears 

 and apples, in sufficient variety. Peaches, too, of fine qual- 

 ity, that will ripen here in September, and a few ripening 

 still later, are very desirable, A few years more experience 

 and the fruiting of many varieties now collected, will 

 doubtless render it possible to improve the lists that fol- 

 low — though with the exception of the varieties of the 

 Orange family and the Olive, there is hardly a fruit in 

 them, that is not a familiar acquaintance to the writer, 

 and these lists may be relied on as embracing the most vgil- 

 uable varieties that have fruited in this section up to 1856. 

 The collections of Dr. Ward, Mr. Oamak, and others, 

 planted as far back as 1836, and now in full bearing, and 

 more recently Mr. Van Buren's, at Olarksville, together 

 with my own, have rendered it less difficult to form select 

 lists of the most desirable kinds. Besides the varieties 

 fully described, a list of those worthy of trial is occasion- 

 ally added, embracing those found most desirable in other 

 sections, which are likely to prove of equal or superior 

 value here. As these come into bearing, notes of their 

 quality will be given from time to time in the Southern 

 Cultivator." Most of them will fruit the next summer 

 (1856) in my ground. 



The main requisites for a fruit garden are protection 

 from pillage by a suitable l.edge or other enclosure ; with- 



