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Honneur de la Belgique, Triomphe de Gand, Marquise de 
la Tour Maubou*g, etc. The new varieties of Dr. 
Edmonson, Marylandica and Charles Favorite are very 
fine berries, but not tried enough to speak upon their 
merits, compared with others. The Peabody Hauibois is 
a very large berry, and of good flavor, but its irregular 
shape and being a poor bearer are defects. It is a very 
strong grower, and the size of the berries make up for the 
small number produced. P. J. B. 
Fruittand,'^ Augusta, Ga , June, 1859. 
TREE PEDDLERS FROM THE NORTH— AGAIN. 
Editors Southern Cultivator — As “Malic Acid” has 
“opened the ball on the above theme,” will you permit 
one of the oldest subscribers and readers of your paper to 
add a few lines on the same subject to his excellent article 
in the July number. Persons at the South are hot gener- 
ally aware that the entire list of apple trees at the North, 
with but very few exceptions, are in a discarded and en- 
feebled state ; so much so indeed, that the subject, as to 
the cause and what are the remedies necessary to their 
restoration to health, is of frequent discussion in the meet- 
ings of their Pomological Societies, so that those procur- 
ing this species of fruit trees from that region are not only 
getting those not naturally adapted to our soil and climate, 
but are getting diseased trees which will not succeed any- 
where. This fact is so well known, not only by Northern 
Nurserymen, but orchardists there genera'ly, that they 
are resortihg to scions and trees of Southern origin for 
home use, well knowing that it is useless to plant the old 
varieties, with the expectation of deriving fruit of any ex- 
cellence from them. 
This year will witness more Southern trees going North 
to be planted there, than there will be coming from there 
to the South, unless the impositions and success of the 
itinerant tree peddlers have been very successful in mak- 
ing engagements for the delivery of trees the coming win- 
ter. 
The Nursery business at the North has been overdone 
for the last few years ; an immense stock of Apple, Peach 
and Evergreens, are on hand, which can be had for al- 
most any price, and having, in a great measure, lost the 
Southern trade, agents, peddlers and drummers are sent 
out to work them off at what they can get for them ! 
Some may be led to suppose that Southern Nurserymen 
are only advocating the use of Southern raised . trees 
through interested motives. To such, permit me to say, 
you cannot separate the interests of the Nurserymen from 
that of their customers — both must flourish or both must 
fall together. A Southern Nurseryman cannot succeed in 
perpetrating a fraud upon his customers but for a very 
brief space of time before he is detected — not more than 
three or four years— he would fail in business before he 
could get it successfully started. It is fjr his interest to 
tell the truth, and nothing but the truth, not only in the 
descriptions of trees he offers for sale, but also in the 
modes of planting and cultivation ; for should his custom- 
ers fail in raising fruit, he must, consequently, fail in sell- 
ing trees. 
This mutual interest does not exist between Southern 
purchasersand Northern peddlers— the latter sells his trees 
and removes to a thousand or two miles distant, and is 
never known or heard from again, doubtless much to his 
satisfaction, after having gulled somebody and having 
made a profitable trip. 
That there are many high minded, honorable gentlemen 
engaged in the Nursery business at the North not only 
will we admit, but know, and who will, if their opinions 
are asked, honestly and frankly tell you that their trees 
and varieties of many fruits will fail here; and while we 
are cautioning the Southern public in relation to tree 
peddlers, we take equal pleasure in recommending many 
regular Northern Nurserymen for honesty and integrity, 
and we would take especial pleasure could we say this for 
all in the regular trade there. 
It is but a very few days since we saw a notice that a 
Northern Nurseryman was selling a new Southern seed- 
ling fruit, while at the same time it had never passed out 
of the hands of the originator, who rssides in one of the 
Southern States. Whether this Nurseryman has agents 
and peddlers at the South we cannot say ; but a man who 
will be guilty of the above fraud, would not hesitate to 
sell a Persimmon tree for an Orange, could he find a pur- 
chaser 
A word as regards Roses. One Southern raised Rose 
bush is worth a dozen raised at the North. A good and 
well grown Rose has never yet been grown, nor can one be 
grown there. We have seen many sickly, feeble, wiry, 
diminutive things called Roses, set out in pots, but never 
such robust, vigorous plants as are to be found in South- 
ern Nurseries ; and when we make these remarks we 
wish to be understood as speaking of the newer and im- 
proved varieties, and not of the old spring Roses. 
We probably, last winter, saw some of the same tribe 
of itinerants, described by “Malic Acid,” with jars of fruit 
and flaming hand bills. At one time we stumbled up- 
on three of these worthies in one place, and were credibly 
informed that they had succeeded in making engagements 
for the delivery of trees at a future lime, to some of the 
citizens of the place. 
This imposition, will, no doubt, work its own cure. 
Three or four years, however, will be required to accom- 
plish it, and then the peddlers will be setting on some 
bass-wo )d, white oak stump in Massachusetts, whittling 
oat cucumber seeds and singing, 
“Hail Columbia, happy land. 
If I haint nicked ’em Til be darned!” 
J. 
July, 1859. 
ORCHARD RAMBLES — NO. 1. 
THE ^PPLE IN MIDDLE GEORGIA. 
“ The Apple is the Surest Fruit Crop in Middle € eorgia." — Southern 
Cultivator. 
Editors Southern Cultivator — The Autocrat of all 
the Breakfast Tables, in laying down the law with regard 
to “Slang,” limits its use to those cases in which ordinary 
language fails to do justice to the subject, without danger 
of exhausting itself 
He would, therefore, hold me excused for saying that 
the above paragraph fairly “lifted me off my feet!” 
I hereby protest against the claims of the “Georgia 
Calf” to the arch symbolship of wretchedness until the 
rights of the Middle Georgia- Apple-Tree are fairly investi- 
gated. 
Generally the rear-guard of an utter pomological defeat, 
it presents, like Marshal Ney, an epitome of courage and 
calamity, 
“I am ye Orchard !” 
In the desolate heart of the worn out old field ; by the 
brink of the blood red gully; in the wildest tangle of 
briar and broom-sedge; on whatever bald declivity the 
sun in his journey brands his fiercest “Farewell to Hope” 
—there the Apple still lives, and— brings forth fruit. 
Every man has his Apple Tree, whose reputation it 
were no more safe to assail than that of his wife or of any- 
thing else that is his. 
Didn’t he give a dime for the t>pple 1 Didn’t he plant 
the seed! Didn’t he rear the tree 1 Hasn’t he eaten of 
the fruit thereofi Wasn’t it as big as his head I as yal- 
ler as a pumpkin I as “meller” as a turnip ; and didn’t it 
keep like a brick bat ? 
