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SOUTHERN CULTIVATOR. 
CONDENSED CORRESPONDENCE. 
Pears at the North. — A Southern friend, who is 
thoroughly versed in the science and practice of Fruit 
Culture, writes us fi'om Philadelphia, under date of Nov. 
5th, 1858 ; 
“I forgot to mention the fact of my being offered for 
Pears, per barrel, ^30, by several of the fruit men in this 
city. Now, I should think it would pay well to raise 
the Winter Pears — a profitable investment, so long as 
they can be sold at such prices. They will be higher in 
a few years than they are now.” 
Lime for Manure. — A gentleman, in all respects fa- 
miliar with the subject, writing from Cass county, Ga., 
says : 
“With a patent kiln, lime can be burned here at 3 cents 
a bushel, rating labor at per month. The freight to 
Augusta is now 11 cents per bushel. If the State or the 
parties purchasing provided their cars, the freight could be 
reduced to 9 cents, which would make the cost of lime 12 
cents per bushel, delivered in Augusta. As an item of 
Agricultural interest, this is well worthy of notice in the 
Cultivator. You may rely on the figures being correct.” 
“ Grape Culture,” — ‘T take this opportunity to return 
my thanks lor the Report on the Culture of the Vine, 
Wine Making, &c., by Mr, Caradeuc. It is the very 
thing I have long sought after. J. E. P,” 
AjRicultural Books Forthcoming. — A New York 
city correspondent writes : 
“Our enterprising friend, A. O, Moore, the great Agri- 
cultural Book Publisher, has now in press several new 
books or new editions of old books, among which I may 
mention : — ‘Downing’s Landscape Gardening,’ which will 
contain 5 new steel plates in the best style, besides new 
wood engravings, portraits of places and trees of interest, 
mostly drawn by Mr. Moore., himself; ‘Darlington’s 
Agricultural Botany,’ or ‘Weeds and Useful Plants,’ also 
well illustrated ; ‘Longsti'Oth’s Hive and Honey Bee,’ a 
much improved edition with new matter ; ‘Elliott’s West- 
ern Fruit Book,’ which, I think, you will find much im- 
proved. Besides Mr. Moore is getting out ‘Herbert’s 
Hints to Horsekeepers,’ v/ith additional chapters on Car- 
riages, Harness, etc , making it a more complete manual 
for the horsekeeper than has heretolore appeared.” 
[All our readers should possess these valuable books. 
The cost is trifling, and the information which they con- 
tain, invaluable. — E ds.] 
Georgia Catawba Wine. — A gentleman of Middle 
Georgia, who has paid much attention to the Grape, 
writes ; 
“I have, for the first time, made some Still Catawba 
Wine this fall. By next fall, if it turn out as well as I ex- 
pect, I shall compare notes with Mr. Axf, and shall send 
you a sample to test it. If, however, your taste is not in 
constant practice, you may call the aid of some one on 
whose judgment you can rely. I don’t pretend to be a 
professed wine maker or manufacturer, i nd do not aspire 
to anything more than an amateur ; but I can assure you 
that the wine 1 make is considered very pleasant, and is 
devoid of all inebriating qualities. My wine took the 
prize at our late County Fair. I think well of your sug- 
gestion to use the plow for the grape culture; it is well 
adapted to all sandy, grey, and mulatto soils, but the red 
stiflfclay needs the spade. It is well, however, to en- 
courage the culture of the grape in any way.” 
Grafting into Suckers — “I have purchased a lot of 
trees from a small nursery establishment in the interior 
of Georgia, being attracted by the low price of per 
100, at which they were offered. I find that they have 
been raised from cuttings or from layers. Will they make 
as healthy trees as it grafted in good roots'? I send you 
a sample of the trees.” A Constant Readkr. 
[The trees sent are miserable and worthless— not worth 
the freight — will be a Dailey “ eye sore” to the planter — 
should have been grafted on good seedling roots, as is the 
practice of all reliable and intelligent nurserymen. — E ds. 
The Grape Culture in California. — By the last ac- 
counts from California, it is stated, that one plantation of 
forty acres of ground containing 40,000 vines, yielded this 
season 37,000 gallons of white wine, 3,000 gallons of red 
wine, 5,000 angellica and 3,000 gallons brandy, in all, 
48,000 gallons — which gives 1 ,200 gallons per acre. 1 his 
is the product of one vineyard in the district of Los An- 
geles, (not los Angelos as it is sometimes written ) Los 
Angeles means the Angels, a very appropriate name for 
a good productive climate and soil; 5 gallons wine make 
one gallon brandy, one gallon angellica gives 15 pints 
wine. P. 
[How is it possible for one gallon (4 quarts) of angelli- . 
ca, to give 15 pints (7 1-2 quarts!) of wine I Will our 
friend “P.”, be good enough to explain, and also tell our 
readers what “ angellica” is ? — Eds.] 
Crab Grass — Editors Southern Cultivator — There 
is a diversity of opinion in this region of country as to 
whether or not Crab Grass is a good fertilizer. Some of 
our farmers contend that a good coat of crab grass ploughed 
under in the spring and summer adds much to the pro- 
duction of the soil, and that if allowed to mature the hay 
ploughed under in the spring is of much benefit to the 
production that years. I contend that weeds when very 
luxuriant if ploughed under will be a benefit. I wish to 
know from some of your scientific practical farmers (some 
of your numerous subscribers) whether the crab grass is 
a benefit or an injury to land, and whether or not it pos- 
sesses all the fertilizing chemical ingredients that are ne- 
cessary on sandy lands. An answer through your valua- 
ble paper will benefit some of your subscribers veuy much 
in this region. Yours truly, Wattensas. 
Des Arc, Arkansas, 1858. 
Prize Animals.— We have received a list of Prizest 
won by Col. J. W. Ware, near Berryvile, Clark co., Va., 
at the Virginia Valley Agricultural Society’s Fair, U, B. 
Fair at Richmond, Va., Fair of the Maryland State Socie- 
ty, &c., &c., and should judge that the Horses and Sheep 
of this gentleman are of very superior quality. 
The Cultivator “ too late for “ T” (ba). — Our gift- 
ed “ Torch Hill” correspondent — the renowned and im- 
mortal author of “ The Farmer Man,” (published else- 
where in present nu nber) sends us the following com- 
plaint of the tardiness of our January number: 
What impedes his wheels'? and what 
Detains his coming chariot 7 
What, I say, can be the matter 
With the Southern Cultivator? 
Broke his clevis 7 beat his steel 7 
Sprung his beam 7 or split his heel 7 
Here are orchards that implore him 1 
Here are gardens waiting for him! 
Seeds to plant ! and plants to “ tend to”f 
“ Worlds of work “ that there’s no end to I 
Say, what can the matter be 
That he doesn’t come to “ T 7” 
{3*^ The intellect of the wise is said to be like glass ; 
it admits the light of heaven and reflects it. 
