306 SOUTHERN CULTIVATOR. 
NOBLE LIBERALITY. 
Col. P. St. Geo. Cooke, former President of the Vir- 
ginia State Agricultural Society, has given $20,000 to- 
wards the endowment of an Agricultural School in Vir- 
ginia. Some unknown friend to Agriculture has placed 
$10,000 at the disposal of the Hon. W. C. Rives for the 
same purpose. The American Farmer well remarks in 
regard to this judicious liberality : “Let all honer be done 
to the men who set such an example of munificence and 
execute their wise and liberal designs themselves. How 
much better than a post mortem gift.” 
Have we no gentlemen in Georgia, who, from their 
superabundant means, will imitate this noble example ? 
What pleasure so great, in the decline of life, as to see a 
portion of the results of our labor employed in giving 
knowledge to the ignorant’, a right direction to the erring 
passions of youth, and diffusing that practical knowledge 
so.indispensable to the prosperity of the State '1 We thus 
see, with our own eyes, how our “memory shall live after 
us.” 
Correction. — On page 259 of last number, (September) 
first line at head of the first column, will be found a singu- , 
lar error. Whether the '‘imp" that has been immemorial- 
ly supposed to infest printing offices desired merely to 
see his own name “in print,” or whether he produced this 
“typographical mutation” from an innate and Satanic 
love of mischief, we know not — but certain it is, that 
where we wrote “ill tempered churl" he made us say 
“ill tempered devil" much to our surprise and regret. 
Our intelligent readers, of course, readily correct for them 
selves the ordinary and unavoidable “errors of the press,” 
but one like this seems to require at least a passing ex- 
planation. Should a similar one occur in our pages, the 
reader may know that “Dr. Faustus” and his co-adjutor are 
again at work among the types, and that “we” are to be 
held guiltless ! 
Fine Grapes ! — We are under obligation to R Pe- 
ters, Esq,, of “Downing Hill Nursery,” Atlanta, Ga., 
for samples of the following Grapes : DevereauXy Charter 
Oak, Herbemont, (or Warren,) Saluda, Ohio, Cross Tim- 
bers, Whitlow, To Kalofi, Warren, Bland’s Madeira, 
Le7iior, Concord, Eisinboro, Diana, Norto^ds Virginia. 
Long. We have marked the best in italics, and would 
remind our readers that the Devereux, Ohio and Lenior, 
are nearly if not altogether, the samej as are, also, the 
Herbemont and Warren of most collections. With some, 
however, the “Guignard,” of So. Ca., is called Herbemont; 
and this (Guignard) Grape differs materially from the 
Warren, The nomenclature of our Grapes needs a re- 
viiion, as many single varieties are known under at least 
half a dozen names. 
Pruning the Grape, — The article on pruning the 
Grape (with illustrations) which we had prepared for this^ 
number, is necessarily deferred until our next. It will 
then be in ample time for the present year’s operations 
in the Vineyard;, and we trust, be of some service to those 
who are beginning the culture oi the Grape. 
“TRANSACTIONS” OF THE NEW YORK STATE 
Society. 
Hon. B. P. Johnson, Secretary of the New York State 
Agricultural Society, has placed us under additional obli- 
gations, by sending us the Transactions of the New 
York State Agricultural Society for 1858 — this being the 
18th volume. These Transactions for 1858 make a hand- 
somely printed and well bound volume of upwards of 
eight hundred pages. This, with the previous volumes, 
forwarded from the same kind and valued source, afford a 
subject of rich agricultural study. We had supposed 
that the volumes we had already received could scarcely 
be improved, but this is perhaps more interesting and in- 
instructive than any of its predecessors. The people of 
New York have reason to be proud of what their Society 
is doing as exhibited in these sterling volumes. The 
patronage bestowed by the State upon this Society is an 
important member of a scries of thoughtful, wise and 
and liberal acts of Legislation, which justly entitle New 
York to her high place among her sister States of this 
confederacy. The contrast of Southern Legislation, or 
rather the want of it, is very painful and humiliating. 
The volume before us contains the admirable speech 
of Mr, Williams on Agricultural Education — an instruc- 
tive series of farm reports (from which we shall hereafter 
copiously extract) — a treatise on the fishes of the State, 
their habits, mode of rearing, &c, — an elaborate article on 
the whole subject of fencing — the fifth report of Dr. Fitch 
on Etomology — the valuable report of Messrs. Lawes and 
Gilbert, on Manures for permanent meadow, &c. Both 
the beauty and value of this report are increased by a 
number of handsome illustrations. 
Mr. David Dickson, of Hancock, has our thanks 
for a box of his cider and domestic wine in bottles. Some 
of the cider is marked four years old and the wine seven. 
This cider differs from any other cider that we have ever 
tasted, and is a most agreeable beverage. Mr. Dickson 
sent us his receipt for making it some time since, which 
was published in the South Countryman. The possibil- 
ity of making such an article of cider and by a process 
so simple, is an additional argument for paying attention 
to the growth of the apple. We have reserved Mr. Dick- 
son’s wine to be opened on some occasion on which 
there may be an assemblage of Georgia farmers, at which 
time the health of “ the grreat cotton planter,” shall be 
duly remembered. 
Choice Grapes, — Messrs. C. P. Bissell & Salter, of 
Rochester, N. Y., have placed us under obligations by 
sending us per mail, some sample clusters of Logan and 
Delaware Grapes. They arrived in good order, and were 
very fine, especially the Delaware. It will be recollected 
that we gave an illustration of the fine Grapery of Messrs. 
B, & S., in our August number, and we may remark that 
these gentlemen are very prompt and upright dealers, and 
thoroughly acquainted with their business 
^^“We return thanks to the Hon. A R Wright, for 
a copy of vol. 8ih of the Reports on “The Pacific Rail 
Rocid Routes ” 
