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“Rural Prospect.” — Aristander. — Your poem will 
appear hereafter. It was received to late ior present 
number. 
Light Bread.^L, T. J.— We cannot find the recipe 
you allude to. What number of the paper did it appear 
in'? 
“ Slave Trade,” &c. — “ Planter^' forgot to send us his 
name, lacking which we cannot publish his communica- 
tion, without violating one of our standing rules. More- 
over, we think it best to discontinue the discussion of the 
Re-opening of the African Slave Trade, for the present, 
in these columns. Enough has been said on this subject, 
'pro and con^ and we shall now let the matter rest. 
Yazoo Horse Power. — T, G. C, — Address Mr, Jas. 
L. Coleman, of this city. 
Figs in Tennessee, — J. H, A. — The fig may need a 
slight winter protection with you, in Sevier county. It is 
raised as far North as Raleigh, N. C., and Petersburg, 
Va., by covering the branches with straw or pine boughs, 
from 1st of Nov. to 15th of April. The No.’s you desire 
were sent. 
Books on Flowers. — Mrs. Dr, H.— “Breck’s Book of 
Flowers,” and “ Buist's American Flower Garden Di- 
rectory,” are the best. See May No. (1859), page 153. 
Cotton Seed, &c. — Mr. V. La Taste filled your order 
as requested. 
Gestation of Animals, &c.— E T. E.— The' article 
you desire was published in our February number (1859), 
page 38. The receipt of the paper by you is a proof that 
your letter and money came to hand ; as we send no 
papers without the dollar in advance. 
The Curculio. — L. H. S. — Our plan of Plum culture is 
to plant the trees close— say 10 to 15 feet — to put up a 
tight fence around the orchard, and then turn in a lot of 
young “shoats,” and let them range freely during the 
season, feeding them under the trees. This, we believe 
to be the most economical and eflfectual mode of destroying 
the Curculio ; but a late number of the Genesee Farmer 
contains the following specific : 
'^Remedy for the Cnrculio. — To one pound of whale 
oil soap, add four ounces of flour of sulphur. Mix 
thoroughly, and dissolve in twelve gallons of water. 
“To one half peck of quicklime add four gallons of 
water, and stir well together. When fully settled, pour 
off the transparent lime water, and add to the soap and 
sulphur mixture. 
“Add to the same also, say four gallons of tolerably 
strong tobacco water. 
“Apoly this mixture, when thus incorporated, with a 
garden syringe, to your plum or other fruit trees, so that 
the foliage shall be w^ll drenched. If no rains succeed 
for three weeks, one application will be sufficient. Should 
frequent rains occur, the mixture should be again applied, 
until the stone of the fruit becomes hardened, when the 
season of the Curculio’s ravages is past.” 
The above, being highly recommended, is copied from 
the New York Observer. A correspondent of that paper 
having tried the preparation on part of his trees, secured 
a good crop of fine fruit, while on those to which it was 
not applied no fruit was matured. Will not fruit growers 
generally give it a faithful trial the coming season, and 
publish the result I 
Wit is a dangerous tool. It may tickle, but 
tickling isn’t safe if, while it makes us laugh, it gives us 
pain. 
SOUTHERN WINTER APPLES. 
A FRIEND, from Atlanta, (whose zeal in all rural im- 
provements is well known,) has kindly placed upon our 
table a box containing the following Southern S:edling 
Apples, viz: Shockley, Stephenson’s Winter, Nickajack, 
Oconee Greening, East Point Greening, Green Crank, 
(No. 2,) Yellow (English) Crab, Hockett’s Sweet, and 
Yates. He informs us that he has also our favorite fall 
Apple — the Mangum — yet in an excellent state of preser- 
vation, and that no especial pains have been taken with 
the above varieties more than to keep them in the equable 
temperature of a dry cellar. They are now (May 10) 
almost as good as when they were gathered last fall; and 
afford another most gratifying evidence of the great ad- 
vantages which we possess in the cultivation of all varie- 
ties of fine fruit. 
Such wjnter Apples as these before us, were entirely 
unknown to the great mass of our people, a few years 
since ; but now, that our collection of Southern native 
Seedlings embraces a complete succession of this excellent 
fruit for the entire year, we have not the slightest excuse 
for either regarding the Apple as “forbidden fruit,” or for 
purchasing it, at a high price, from distant producers. 
We have cultivated fruit of all kinds in the neighbor- 
hood of Augusta for many years, and have never yet 
failed of a crop of Apples, even when nearly all other 
fruit was destroyed. We say, then, confidently, plant an 
abundance of Southern native Apple trees, and success is 
“certain and sure.”- 
A “ LITERARY DEPARTMENT.^’ 
To the friend who suggests the establishment of a separ- 
ate department in the Cultivator for “news and literature,” 
we would simply remark that we deem it best strictly to 
adhere to the purpose which has controlled us hitherto, 
viz: {\iQ improvement of Southern Agriculture and the 
social elevation of the tillers of the soil and all who love 
and honor rural pursuits. We shall not attempt to graft 
upon this sturdy stock, the ephemeral and puerile trash 
which forms so much of the “current literature” of the 
day. Let those who desire*a pure and healthful litera- 
ture, seek it in the pages of our standard English and 
American authors, and all who crave “news,” should 
betake themselves to the daily papers, which are 
the proper dispensers thereof. The present limits of our 
journal are very ample, and we take occasion, from time 
to time, to introduce miscellaneous articles of general in- 
terest. Farther than this, however, neither our own 
'judgment nor the taste of our readers will allow us to de- 
viate from the strictly practical character which we claim 
for our paper. 
“The Courant.” — The first number of this literary 
paper is before us. It is a very neat weekly, of 8 pages, 
edited with much ability by Howard H. Caldwell, Esq , 
aided by a large number of the most talented writers of 
the South. It is published at $2 per annum, in advance. 
Address Wm W. Wai. kf.r, Jr , & Co , Columbia, S. C. 
