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put on ground for wheat. When cultivation is not 

 attended to, and where a system of trimming out 

 dead wood is not pursued, the yield of fruit is un- 

 satisfactory, and the business unprofitable. The 

 varieties raised are generally as follows : — Early red 

 (Troth of the West) ; Honest John, which we sup- 

 pose is the Large Early York ; Old Mixon, Late 

 Kare llipe. Late Crawford, Prince's Rare Ripe, 

 Smock, Morris White and Beer's Smock. This 

 last is an October peach, and is highly valued. — 

 K Y. Tribune. 



A Monster Cherry Tree.— Some time since 

 we published an account of a very large cherry tree 

 growing in this State. A friend furnishes us with 

 a statement of the dimensions of one growing on 

 the farm of John Ansfachs, in Reading Township, 

 Perry County, Ohio, which makes the first appear 

 a mere switch. It is of the Black Heart variety. 

 It is 80 feet in height, and 4 feet 1 inch through. 

 The largest limb is 42 feet in length. The seed of 

 this tree was brought from Berks County, Pa., in 

 the year 1817. — Ohio Statesman, 



The Apple in North Carolina.— I think I 

 have an opportunity of knowing, and must express 

 it as my honest conviction, that Western North 

 Carolina can beat any other section of the Union in 

 the production of apples of first qua^^ty. I have 

 seen apples grow in the North and iNoithwest equal 

 in size, but not in quality, to those we produce. 

 Our apple crop is seldom affected by disease, though 

 Jack Frost sometimes disgruntles us. I do not 

 know what an acre of orchard would yield. My 

 nearest neighbor measured 75 bushels of marketable 

 fruit, picked from a single tree last season. I sup- 

 pose the whole product of the tree was about 100 

 bushels — some 20 or 25 bushels having been lost. 

 But this is rather an extraordinary yield — Country 

 Gentleman. 



Origin of the name ' ' Scuppernong Grape. ' ' 

 — This grape and wine had the name of Scupper- 

 nong given to them by Henderson and myself, in 

 compliment to James Blount, of Scuppernong, who 

 first diffused a general knowledge of it in several 

 well-written communications in our paper, and it is 

 cultivated with more success on that river, than in 

 any other part of the State perhaps, except on the 

 Island of Roanoke. — Calvin Jones, in Southern 

 Planter. 



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The Phlox. — The lovely flowers of herbaceous 

 phloxes are distinct from those of all other plants 

 of similar habit in their exquisite symmet'-y of 

 of form and delicacy of coloring. They are for the 

 most part very hardy, though judicious cultivators 

 do not leave their collections entirely to the mercy 

 of the weather all winter. We do not see phloxes 

 as often as we should ; amateurs are so crazy about 

 geraniums and vebenas, which many of them can- 

 not manage in a way to be thoroughly satisfactory, 

 that their minds are drawn away from such a sub- 

 ject as the phlox, which is hardy, requires very lit- 

 tle attention, and never fails to make an ample 

 return for whatever trouble is bestowed upon it. 

 To grow phloxes, you need a mellow, deeply-stirred, 

 and well-manured loam, and a sunny position. The 

 plants should be set out one foot to eighteen inches 

 apart, according to their height and robustness of 

 habits all the taller kinds requiring more room than 

 the dwarfs. 



To propagate them is the most easy. The best 

 plants are those propagated from cuttings in March 

 or April, but strong stools may be divided in April or 

 May, and if planted again with care will flower well. 

 Plants that have survived the winter in the ground, 

 or that have been kept in pots, begin to grow in 

 March. The shoots should be cut away when an 

 inch to two inches long, one or two of the lowest 

 leaves removed, and be dibbled in close together in 

 pans or pots, filled with any light sandy soil. A 

 mixture of sand and peat is the best, but it does not 

 greatly matter what it is, if clean and sandy. These 

 cuttings soon root if shut up close in a frame, and 

 kept regularly sprinkled and shaded. The shortest 

 mode of disposing of them is to allow them to grow 

 in pans till they are three or lour inches high, and 

 then to plant them where they are to flower. By 

 this simple method they do well, and occasional 

 watering and shading for a time after planting is, 

 of course, beneficial. But a better plan is to pot 

 them off separately in small pots as soon as rooted, 

 and keep them in a frame till the pots are full of 

 roots, giving them plenty of air, and planting out 

 at last during moist weather. 



To obtain a fine bloom, occasional watering will 

 be necessary, and liquid manure may be used with 

 advantage. But this trouble may be dispensed 

 with, for if the soil is good and well manured in the 

 first instance, they only want a little watering for a 

 week or two after being first planted, and for the 

 rest of the season will take care of themselves. 



