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materially dwarf the hner kinds, especially if the latter 
throw out their own roots — but, cpJery, do they often do 
thatl If ao, it has escaped our notice. We leave the 
Pear and Haw inquiries of our esteemed correspondents, 
to the abler pens of Dr. “L E. B.” — “D. P.” — “A. C,,” 
-end last, “but not least,” “F. 0. T of “Torch Hill,” the 
“^‘Tom Hood” of Southern Pomology ! — Eds. 
PAVING AROUND STONE FRUIT TREES. 
Editors Southern Cultivator — Some years ago, 
while a resident at the Sand Hills, I saw growing on a 
neighbor’s lot, some of the largest and most thrifty nectar- 
ine trees, of the clingstone variety, that I have ever seen, 
and loaded every year with an abundant crop of fine 
looking fruit, until half grown, when they become gum- 
my and droped from the trees. In two other lots, I saw on 
each lot a tree growing in a walk, where the ground was 
constantly trodden and undisturbed, and each of these 
trees bore, generallyj fine, ripe Nectarines. On the first 
lot, the ground was plowed and every year sown with oats 
under the trees, which never bore ripe fruit. 
I adverted to these facts to my neighbor, but he always 
replied that he forgot to order the discontinuance of the 
plowing, and proposed I should remove one of his trees 
and make my experiments upon it I did so, and having 
applied my theory, he was invited by me, th^ third year, 
to look at his tree, loaded with the most beautiful ripe 
■fruit. I infer from my experiments that the ground should 
uever be disturbed on which stone fruit trees are grown ; 
and if paved around the trees, it would have a favorable 
tendency in maturing the fruit. Augusta. 
INDIAN FRUITS. 
Editors Southern Cultivator — Enclosed I send you 
the names of a few more of our Indian Apples, which, if 
you think they would interest the readers of the Cultivator ^ 
are at your service. , 
Tillaquah. — The original tree of this magnificent fruit is 
stdl growing some four miles from Franklin, N, C. It is 
so great a favorite with all who pass the road that but few 
remain on the tree to thorougly ripen. Its name signfies 
'“big fruit,” 
Toccoa. — This Apple was found in the orchard of Jere- 
miah Taylor, an old Revolutionary soldier, living near 
the celebrated Toccoa Falls, in Habersham county, Ga. 
It ripens in August ; is a very delicious, high flavored fruit, 
Toccoa, when rendered in the English language, means 
'beautiful.” 
Cullamga. — Is a Seedling from the Horse Apple, raised 
by Miss Ann Bryson, who resides on the bank of the 
Cullasaga, orSugartown fork of the Tennessee River, in 
Macon county. North Carolina ; is a very aromatic, early 
Winter Apple, Its name signifies “sweet water,” or 
“sugar water,” and is pronounced Cullasajah. 
Yahoola, — Was found growing on the banks of an old 
gold pit, near Yahoola Creek, a large stream in Lumpkin 
county, Ga., and was brought into notice by Wm. Martin, 
Esq., of Dahlonega, who informs us it is a desirable win- 
ter variety. The meaning of its name we do not know. 
Chestoa — Takes its name from its resemblance to a rab- 
bits head, being conical oblong in form, with one side 
near the calyx, jutting over the other, like a rabbit’s nose. 
I think the name was bestowed upon it by S. Mc- 
Dowell, Esq., but am not positive of it. 
J Van Buren. 
Clarksville, Ga., July, 1859. 
It is a pretty saying of an old writer, that men, 
like books, begin and end with blank leaves — infancy and 
insensibility. 
CROP.S IN LOUISIANA — IMPORTED COTTON — 
Sunflowers, &c. 
Editors Southern Cultivator — Cotton and Corn 
crops in this county, that have not been flooded, look 
finely ; though we at one time thought that the corn crop 
would be very much injured for want of rain. We are 
scraping and moulding the young cotton, and thinning 
the young corn that was planted on the overflowed land. 
It looks well for its age, but, of course, it will be too late 
to make anything like a full crop. 
I counted, to day, on a stalk* of Boyd Cotton 137 bolls 
and forms; on an African stalk, 141; on a stalk of Mc- 
Bride, 135, and on a stalk of imported cotton 237 (6th of 
July.) These stalks were each 3 feet high. The imported 
cotton is certainly, up to this time, the most prolific cot- 
ton I have ever seen, and at least 10 days earlier than any 
variety above mentioned. 
If any of your numerous readers have made an experi- 
ment which has proved that the planting of Sunflow'- 
ers around their homes will prevent chills, let them please 
comunicate the fact through your paper, and oblige “many 
voters.” Yours, &c., G. D Harmon. 
Compromise Place, Milikews Bend, La., July, 1859. 
French Agricultlral Societies.— The Constituiionel 
publishes an article in praise of the agricultural societies 
which have been established throughout France within 
the last few years, and have rendered such good service 
in extending the system of the rotation of green crops. 
Through ihe influence of agricultural societies the old 
routine of fallows and white crops have been abandoned 
in nearly all parts of France. The consequence is that 
the cultivation of wheat, which in the year 1846 occupied 
only 5,965,998 hectares of land, was extended in 1856 
over 6,468,236 hectares. The produce of the wheat crop 
has increased within the same period from 10 to IS 
hectares. 
|^“When I gaze into the stars they look down upon 
me with pity from their serene spaces, like eyes glisten- 
ing with tears, over the little lot of man. Thousands of 
generations, all as noisy as our own, have been swallow- 
ed up by time, and there remains no record of them any 
more; yet Arcturus and Orion, Sirius and the Pleiades, 
are still shining in their courses, clear and young as when 
the shepherd first noted them from the plain of Shinar. 
What shadows we are, and what shadows w*e pursue ! 
Thomas Carlyle. 
Beautiful Thought.— “Some author informs us how 
we became indebted for the ‘Red-Rose.’ They were all 
of a pure and spotless white when in Eden they first 
spread their leaves to the morning sunlight of creation. 
Eve, as for the first time she gazed upon the taintless 
gem, could not suppress her admiration of its beauty, but 
stooped down and impressed a warm kiss upon its snowy 
bosom. The rose stole the scarlet tinge for her velvet lip, 
and yet wears it,” 
Is that also Thine I — A beautiful reply is recorded of 
a Dalcarlian peasant whose master was displaying to him 
the grandeur of his estate. Farms, houses, and forests 
were pointed out in succession on every hand, as the 
property of the rich proprietor, who summed up finally 
by saying, “In short, all that you can see, in every direc- 
tion, belongs to me.” The poor man looked thoughtfully 
for a moment, then pointing up to heaven, solemnly re- 
plied, “And is that also thine I” How' many who are 
satisfied only to grasp all that is around them and beneath 
them down to the centre of the globe, wholly forget to 
own— upward. 
