SOUTHERN CULTIVATOR. 
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“I should be pleased to hear from you at all times with 
regard to this interest in your part of the country. 
Yours very respectfully, W. G. 
St. Louis, Missouri, April, 21, 1859. 
For the Southern Cultivator. 
THE FLOWERS. 
TO MRS. E. P. C. 
A blessing on the broad, bright lands. 
Whose children come to ours. 
And lead us with their fragrant hands 
Around the World of Flowers. 
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No dust upon our sandelled feet. 
As they who go to find. 
In other lands, a flower as sweet 
As one they left behind. 
With them our^houghts all journeys take. 
With them our fancies roam. 
And ever when we will, we wake 
And find ourselves at Home. 
They bring to us the star-ward Palms 
Beyond the Orient seas. 
They breathe for us the blended balms 
Of the Hesperides. 
They wake for us the breath and bloom 
Where soft Circassia smiles ; 
They veil beneath their tender bloom 
The maidens of the Isles. 
They bid the rgeen Oasis creep 
Around the Desert wells ; 
They sound on many a cedared steep 
The sweet Pa joda bells. 
All times and climes they journey through. 
Until their pathway lies, 
Beyond the gates of Morning, to 
The Walks of Paradise. 
And many an Angel of the Earth 
Their upward path hath trod, 
Gone from our garden gateways, forth 
Into the arms of God. 
Never too L\te. — The feeling is sometimes expressed 
that it takes so long a time for fruit trees to mature, that a 
person in middle life can reap no advantage from the 
planting of an orchard. A year or two since an active 
old gentleman said to us, “Call and try some of my apples. 
After I was seventy years old, I set out my trees, and now 
I am eating the fruit of them.” Let not our friends be 
discouraged. If they have failed heretofore, to get an 
orchard to suit them, let them try again — if not more than 
seventy-five years old ! — Exchange. 
That Bottle of Wine. — Our friend and fellow towns- 
man, James A. Clendinen, placed upon our table a bottle 
of his Muscadine Wine. It was excellent, and we rel- 
ished its flavor exceedingly well, Mr. C. made some five 
or six hundred bottles, and he informs us that he is going 
into it largely this year — AhbervUle {Ala.) Advertiser. 
NANKIN COTTON — PEARS — GRAPES, &;c. 
Editor Southern Cultivator— Is the Nankin, or Yel- 
low Cotton, cultivated by any one of your acquaintances 
or subscribers I and could I get some of the seed 1 No 
matter how small a quantitily, from half an ounce up- 
wards. Why has it so generally gone out of cultivation 'I 
Is it because it is not of ready sale I for, if so, I do not 
wish to have anything to do with it. 
I have had a most abundant crop of Pears the past year, 
and many new ones among the^them. The Viscomplede 
Spoelberg proved the best of its season, being delicate 
enough to give to my infant born in February last, but it 
has the bad habit of bearing excessively. The Bezy de 
Bretagne proves a vigorous grower, abundant bearer, ex- 
cellent fruit lor cooking, and a crisp, juicy; tolerable one 
for eating, and ripens when Pears are rather scarce. 
It is in every respect superior to the Martin Sec, and 
ripens much later as well as much better. 
I have three or four varieties of Grapes, received from 
Italy about 22 years ago that still live; some do well in 
spite of total neglect., the mocking birds eating all the 
fruit. They were sent me as wine grapes. If you wish 
them from me, another year I will try to be prepared to 
furnish roots of the most vigorous, and cuttings of the 
others. 
I intend to plant only short stapled cotton on one of my 
plantations, (on the main), and to try it on a small scale 
on the island one. Long cotton has proved a poor busi- 
ness to me. 
Who makes the best Saw Gin, and has the gin much in- 
fluence upon the price of the lint in market I 
Some of these questions I would like to see in the Cul- 
tivator, and would have no objections to seeing all, as a 
part of the information may prove acceptible to others as 
well as 
Your humble servant, R. C. 
Beaufort, S. C., 1859. 
[Will some of our correspondents answer the questions 
in regard to Nankin Cotton — the Saw Gins, Scc.'i. — Eds ] 
Ringing the Grape Vine, — An experiment has been 
tried in France and in this country, on the grape-vine, by 
which the size and quality of the fruit may be increased, 
and the period of its maturity hastened. A narrow ring 
of bark is taken from the bearing stem near its junction 
with the main stock. It must be as deep as the liber, i. e., 
penetrating the two barks. The effect is to check the for- 
mation of leaf, and to accelerate the growth and ripening 
of the grapes by at least a fortnight. Specimens from 
vines treated in this manner have been shown at the Ex- 
hibition in Paris. The fruit was larger than that of the 
un-ringed branches of the same vine. This is an inter- 
esting experiment, and may be tried to an extent sufficient 
to gain a practical test without injuring the plant. 
Wine Making — After all that has been accomplished, 
there is an absurd idea prevalent that wine cannot be pro- 
fitably raised in this country, that labor is too dear, and 
European opposition gre 't. On the contrary, wine rais- 
ing is at this instant the most profitable branch of agricul- 
ture in America. It will pay from one to three hundred 
dollars an acre, yielding a higher profit on capital, skill 
and labor invested, than any other planting. Tne wines 
which can be most easily raised are, like those of Ger- 
many, light and very innocuous . — Hartford Times. 
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