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THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 



imported whiskey aiid logwood, when they 

 could have made a pure wine, wholesome and 

 nourishing, as easily as they could yeast. The 

 seuppernong makes a pleasant light wine. 

 The Catawba and Warrenton make a wine 

 equal to the best sherry. The seuppernong 

 must be planted from its roots, as it does not 

 strike freely from cuttings; the others may 

 be started from cuttings, and in three years 

 will yield wine. Old vines should now be 

 looked to, the lateral branches cut back to 

 three or four buds, all the dead wood taken 

 out, and the vines trained to posts or trellises. 

 Guano worked in, around grape vines, will in 

 crease their productiveness. Where this c-n- 

 not be got, lime ai d hen manure will answer a 

 good purpose. There is no grape vine so well 

 adapted to arbors as the seuppernong. It is 

 a rapid grower, branches thick, holds its foli- 

 age longer than any other vine, and bears 

 heavy crops without pruning. With this vine 

 the owner of a half acre lot may have a vine- 

 yard. 



best gardener in the Southern States 

 ing on peas, we have no doubt, from 



The above on onions and grapes, are from Mr. 

 Peabody, of the Soil of the South, probably the 



The follow- 



\ve nave no aouDt, irom having tried 

 the plan with Irish potatoes, is capital : 



The English pea, one of the most delicious 

 of all the garden luxuries, has also been sup- 

 posed by many not well adapted to the South- 

 ern climate, from the fact that its home seems 

 to be in England, where the atmosphere is al- 

 ways moist. But, if the early kinds are planted 

 this month, in a soil abounding in humus, 

 where moisture can be retained, without 

 being wet, they perfect here before the ex- 

 treme hot weather comes on, and are equal t > 

 any raised in colder latitudes There are sev 

 eral extra early kinds. We prefer the early 

 " cedo nidi.' 11 ' After the young plants have 

 been once worked, ai d sticks placed for them 

 to run upon, the whole ground between the 

 rows should be covered several inches deep 

 with leaves or straw. This will cause them to 

 bear much longer, and to yield larger and bet- 

 ter filled poos Try it, you who have failed 

 to raise English peas because the climate was 

 too hot, and you will confess that when you 

 adapt all your culture to the climate, you can 

 raise all the garden vegetables here as well as 

 in Old or New England. 



Cucumbers and squashes, says the same 

 good authority, may be brought forward early 

 by taking a barrel, sawing it in two, and sink- 

 ing it nearly to the top in the ground, then 

 filling it half full of well rotted stable man- 



ure, over which place some soil, in which sow 

 the seed. In cold nights, the top of the bar- 

 rel can be covered to protect the plants from 

 frost ; as the plants begin to run they will bo 

 safe from cold, and will venture over the top 

 of the barrel, running and bearing astonish- 

 ingly. Four barrels appropriated this way, 

 will supply a good sized family with squashes 

 and cucumbers. 



Spring turnips may now be sowed ; put 

 them in drills, and be very careful to sow thin. 



The above directions are all for February, in the 

 latitude of Columbus, Georgia. ' Our climate is 

 from four to six weeks later ; so that they will an- 

 swer here for March, (from 1st to 15th.) 



We are indebted to Mr. Peabody for a small 

 package of the dwarf okra. which being well cul- 

 tivated, says Mr. Peabody, will prove so good that 

 we will never cultivate any other. They are not 

 for distribution. 



Okra may he brought forward some weeks ear- 

 lier by first starting it in the hot-bed, and trans- 



planting with care, 

 transplanted safely 



'or okra, like cotton, may be 



For the Southern Planter. 

 INDIAN CORN. 

 Seed. — The proper kind of corn for planting 

 in parfii u!ar latitude-, loaelities, and qualities of 

 land, is a mailer of much importance, i have 

 no partiality for colour, but much for long grain 

 and large cob. 1 am aware that many persons 

 advocate a small cob, but until 1 am shown a 

 small cob with such long grain as to make a 

 large ear, I will hold on to my big cob, yes 

 ; '& big as my leg. if I can get it. A small ox 

 does n6* yield a large hide; neither have I ever 

 seen a small con yield a large ear. 



The proper enquiry, however, is not so much 

 about the cob, but what kind of seed will yield 

 •he greatest quantity of grain on a given quan- 

 tity of land? 



There may be some ad vantage in the culture 

 of the double eared corn, but of this I have 

 doubts. Is it not true that by an inciea=-ed dis- 

 t mce 3 any kind of com will product- two or more 

 ears to the stalk; and is it not true, that by a 

 diminished dutacce, the double eared corn will 

 only produce one ear to the stalk ? And is it not 

 true that an acre of land can only produce a 

 quantity of corn correspondent to its quality, 

 locality, and culture ? If these be tacts, why grow 

 two small ears to the stalk, which yield no more 

 grain lhan one large ear? 



For my present purpose it will suffiice to divide 

 corn into three different kinds or species, to wit : 

 gourd seed, flint, and a species between these 

 two, which we will call improved gourd seed. 



It has been at least fifty-five years since I last 

 saw the gourd seed in Virginia. It belongs to a 

 more southern climate, and there let it remain. 

 Although the people of Virginia have aban- 

 doned the gourd seed, yet they have adopted a 



