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IIAW-THORN ON PEAR. 
Editors Southern Cui tivator — Your correspondent, 
D. M , of Osika, Miss , in the April number of the Culti- 
vator ^ is too fast. The Haw-thorn is a dwarf and a very 
slow grosver; and if transplanted, that operation will 
make it slower,' IfPear is grafted on White thorn (red 
berries) it will take readily, but it will be a dwarf, and 
only fit for ornament to place in court yards or pleasure 
grounds near a dwelling. For orchard stocks the Angiers 
Quinfte, is now considered the most approved stock for 
the Pear, as this will attain a tolerably good size, is pro- 
ductive and bears early ; also. Pear seedlings of the size 
of one and a half to two inches in diameter, are good stocks 
for the Pear and will make early bearers. 
If large Thorn stocks two inches or more in diameter 
are grafted, with Pear or Apple, on the spot where they 
have grown from the seed, they will bear much earlier 
than on small transplanted stock. Some large Thorn 
stocks which I grafted last spring, just about a year ago, 
as high as four or five feet from the ground, have grown 
during the year some three or four feet high. 
It must be observed that some Pears will not take on 
Quince, and probably not on Thorn, and some come to 
bearing at a much earlier period than others The 
Duchese d’ Angouleme, Bezi de Montigny and Due de 
Bordeaux, are amongst the earliest I have tried. The slow 
bearers might not come to full bearing, if on small Thorn 
stocks, in 15 or 20 years ! 
I have Apples grafted on Thorn stocks one inch and a 
half in diameter, just below the surface of the ground, 
which bloomed the fouth year, but did not bear till the 
seventh, and now, the eighth year, are very full of blooms 
and promise a full crop. These were grafted upon the 
spot where they grow, in an orchard. The Apple on the 
Thorn, will do better than the Pear. 
Any person desiring to plant an orchard should procure 
from a nurseryman, ten or twelve or more good sized 
grafted Pear trees and as many Apples, all of known goed 
qualities, some early and some late. These, if properly 
set in the ground and cultivated, will produce fruit in 
three or four years ; and from them one may graft annual- 
ly some 30, 50 or 100 stocks at hbitum, and so increase 
an orchard in a few years as large as it may be desired, 
without incurring any great expense. But to start an 
orchard on transplanted Thorn stocks, especially of small 
size, would require an age to bring them to maturity. 
D. P. 
Mount Zion, Ga., March, 1859. 
FRUIT TREES FOR THE SOUTH. 
Editors Southern Cultivator — Will some of your 
many contributors or nurserymen prepare apple and peach 
grafts for our Southern rlimatel I have tried /or ten 
years to have an orchard and have failed. The borer or 
worm in the root destroys all my trees. I suppose I have 
set out some 500 or more, and have never received in re- 
turn ten bushels of fruit, either peaches or apples. The 
quince, plum and pear all do well with us in the prairies 
Could the peach and apple be grafted into the plum 
successfully or notl If-so, I would guarantee a sale of a 
fine lot of fruit trees in our State— Mississippi. 
If any gentleman has a lot of trees grafted into the pear 
plum or quince, I would be glad if he would advertise the 
same in the Cultivator. By this means he can find a 
purchaser for his trees. Planter. 
March, 1859. 
AMERICAN GRAPES— LIST OF VARIETIES. 
To give our readers some idea of the number of varie- 
ties of hardy or out door Grapes (mostly nafire) now in 
the hands of amateurs, on trial, we furnish the following 
list, made up from the note books of gentlemen possessing 
specimen vineyards : 
Anna, 
Albino, 
Alexander, 
Alvey, 
August, Early, 
Arkansas, 
Baldwin, 
Baxter, 
Blue, 
Beansville, 
Blue Black Chillicothe, 
Black German, 
Bland, 
Blue Favorite, 
Brinckle, 
Black July, 
[or Lenoir, Liucoln, &c,,] 
Camak, 
Cape, 
Canadian Chief,* 
Canby’s August, 
Cassady, 
Catawba, 
Catawba, Mammoth, 
Catawissa, 
Clara, 
Clinton, 
Concord, 
Creveling, 
Clappier, 
Cowan, 
Cherokee, 
Child’s Superb,* 
Carter’s Fall, 
Caradeuc, Nos. 1 to 6. 
Creeling, 
Carter, 
Charter Oak, 
Delaware, 
Delaware BurgtifUlyi^ 
Diana, * 
Devereux, * * • * 
Early Amber, 
Edwards, 
Elsingburg, 
Emily, 
Eschol, 
Franklin, 
Guarriques, 
Graham, 
Gross, 
Guignard, 
{or Herbemoni], 
Hartford Prolific, 
Herbemont’s Madeira, 
{or Warren, or Guignard,] 
Hyde’s Eliza, 
Harris, 
[or “ Old House 
Isabella, 
Isabella, Maryland, 
Isabella, New, 
Isabella, Wright’s, 
Isabella, Paign’s Early, 
Kingsessing, 
Lehman, 
Lenoir, ) Syn. Black July, 
Lincoln, > Thurmond, 
Logan, 
Lady Finger,* 
Lyman, 
Long, 
Louisa, 
Malaga Seedling, 
Mary Ann, 
Massachusetts White, 
Marion, 
Martinsburg, 
Miles, 
Minor, 
{or Venango,] 
Mountain, 
Mottier’s White, 
Morse, 
Morin, 
Meadville, 
Northern Muscadine, 
Naumkeag, 
Norton’s Virginia, 
No. 7, Raabe, 
No. 8, Raabe, 
Ohio, 
Old House, 
{or Harris,] 
Ontario, 
Penn, 
Perkins, 
Pauline, 
{or Burgundy^ 
Piit’s White, 
Raabe, 
Rebecca, 
Red Traminer,* 
Raisin, 
Reissling,* 
Sage, 
Secord, 
Springstein, 
Swatara, ^ 
Schnicke’s New Red, • 
Scuppernong, 
Shaker, 
{or Union Village,] 
Saluda, 
Seabrook, 
Screw Pit, 
Thurmond, 
{or Lenoir, Lincoln, 
To Kalon, 
Tryon, 
Union Village, 
{or Shaker,] 
White Coleman, 
Wilmington, 
Wine Home, 
Winslow, 
Warren, 
{or Herbemont,] 
Walker’s Fall, 
York Madeira, 
King, 
Kilburn, 
Kilvington, ‘ Young, &c., &c. 
Those marked with a star (*), are of foreign ori- 
gin; but generally succeed well in the open air. 
There are, also, several known synonymes, many of 
