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even on light soils, without previously break- 

 ing up the land wilh the double plough. 



The hay crop is superior to that of last sea- 

 son, and where a second crop has been per- 

 mitted to grow, by moving the first in time 

 and keeping cattle off the ground, the latter 

 is the more luxuriant and makes a better yield. 



Our fruits have again had to pass the ordeal 

 of a fickle climate. The peach, of which we 

 had at one time such confident hopes from its 

 superabundant bloom, has disappointed all our 

 expectations. The crop is meagre every- 

 where, and in some places nothing. Apples 

 were very abundant, and we should have seen 

 the largest crop during many years had not 

 the continued wet weather done so much mis- 

 chief in causing them to rot and fall. 



Our gardeners, whose trade was barred last 

 season by the prevalence of the cholera, have 

 recovered their lost ground during the present 

 year. Vegetables have seldom come to per- 

 fection better or been more in demand. 



For the Southern Planter. 



HORTICULTURAL REMARKS FOR 

 SEPTEMBER, 3850. 



PREPARED BY A. D. ABERNETHY, FLORIST, CLAY 

 STREET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. 



Greenhouse plants should be looked over 

 during this month, and those requiring larger 

 pots shifted to them, and neatly tied to 

 stakes. Roses to bloom well during winter 

 may also be shifted into larger pots, using as 

 a soil for them two parts turfy loam to one of 

 well decayed manure. If charcoal is mixed 

 with the soil or used as drainage at the bottom 

 of the pots it will materially improve boih 

 flowers and foliage. When shifted let them 

 be shaded and sparingly watered for a few 

 days until they take root in the new soil, after 

 which they may be freely exposed and watered. 

 Any flower buds that may be upon them at 

 the time they are shifted ought to be cut off, 

 as it will aid them in blooming during winter. 

 This is also a good season to strike cuttings 

 of roses — let the eutiir.gs be made from the 

 young shoots that have bloomed, cutting them 

 off smooth at the lower end, which should be 

 immediately below a joint, and taking off the 

 leaves as far up as they are intended to be 

 planted. If they are to be planted in a shady 

 situation out of doors, they should be inserted 

 about two-thirds of their length. If in a frame, 

 about one-third. In the former case tflry are 

 more liable to be affected by dry wheather or 



frost, and consequently require to be planted 

 deeper. Those in the ground may stand all 

 winter, and in spring either planted in the 

 open garden or in pots. Sow mignonette in 

 pots for winter blooming. Towards the end 

 of the month all the California annuals should 

 be sown, of which the following short list 

 comprise the best: Phlof Drummondii,Careop- 

 sis Drummondii, Nemophylsa Insignis, Clar- 

 kia Pulchella, Gilio Capitata, Erysimum Pe- 

 roffskianum. 



In the kitchen garden sow brown Dutch let- 

 tuce for winter and spring use, planting it out 

 in a warm border during November. 



UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA. 



The following sheer fabrication has been 

 going the rounds of some of the Northern 

 abolition journals. It was last observed in a 

 Pennsylvania newspaper called the "Good 

 Samaritan," and printed at New Berlin, in 

 that State: 



"Of the one hundred and five young men 

 who compose the graduating class of the 

 University of Virginia, only five hold to the 

 doctrine that slavery is desirable." 



Our Virginia readers need no denial from 

 those connected wilh the University, as stu- 

 dents or Alumni, to convince them of the 

 want of truth in the above paragraph. It car- 

 ries falsehood on its face. There is no regular 

 "graduating class" at the University; and, 

 therefore, no vote could have been taken. If 

 a poll was taken among the students generally, 

 we have yet to learn the first of it. The 

 whole thing is a trick of the abolitionists to 

 misrepresent Southern sentiment. 



TOBACCO DUST. 



"VVe last year procured from a snuff mill a 

 parrel of dry, but damaged snuff flour, and 

 brepared drudging boxes, covered with fine 

 bolting cloth, with which we sifted it over the 

 surfaces of any plants attacked by insects, 

 and with success. The snuff should be ap- 

 plied, if practicable, while the plant is wet 

 with dew, and repeated after every shower. 

 If the boxes are properly made, (like a com- 

 mon flour drudge,) and the snuff is perfectly 

 fine and dry, but little time is necessary to go 

 over an acre of plants. Even the rose-bug, 

 cabbage-louse, thrips on grape vines, &c. all 

 yield to the influence of snuff. 



