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No, 33. President Church— September 15th to 
25th; size, medium ; freestone; flesh white; a seedling 
of Athens, Georgia, and there highly prized. 
No, 34. Alberge Cling — Ripe September 21st to 30th; 
size, large; clingstone; flesh yellow; of fine flavor and 
showy exterior. 
No. 35. Eliza Thomas — Ripe October 1st to 20th; 
size, very large; clingstone; flesh white; a seedling from 
the garden of Mr. T, L. Thomas of Atlanta, Georgia ; 
very productive, of fine quality ; decidedly valuable. 
No, 36, 'Nix^s Late — Ripe October 6th to 20th ; size, 
large ; clingstone ; flesh white ; a seedling from Newton 
county, Georgia ; valued for preserving and marketing. 
No, 37. Calloway Cling — Ripe October 10th to 25th; 
size, medium ; clingstone ; flesh white ; a peach of capi- 
tal flavor and handsome exterior. 
No. 38, Baldwin's Late — Ripe October 25th to Novem- 
ber 10th; size, medium; freestone; flesh white; a seed- 
ling from Alabama, variable in size and quality, but often 
handsome and of fine flavor; the premium peach of the 
Georgia State Fair, October, 1858. 
No, 39. Cowards Late — Ripe October 25th to Novem- 
ber 15th; size medium; clingstone; flesh white ; a seed- 
ling from lower Georgia ; one of the very best late clings; 
of a rich creamy color and good flavor; may be kept un- 
til December. 
No. 40. Cherry's November — Ripe November 1st to 15th, 
size, medium ; clingstone ; flesh white; a seedling from 
West Point, Georgia, often of excellent quality, but varia- 
ble, like all of the very late peaches. 
THE APPLE IN MIDDLE GEORGIA. 
Editors Southern Cultivator — Among the Fables 
that adorn our literature, I know of none whose moral op- 
portunities have been so signally perverted as that of 
which I am about to speak. 
An irate Orchardist, of mature years, finds a lad with 
horticultural proclivities, in the head of his Apple Tree, 
engaged in sampling the fruit. 
Without offering to aid in his education by giving 
him wider opportunity to compare specimens, he presents 
him, first, with a totally indifferent Botanical production ; 
and when “the young (green apple) sauce-box tells him 
plainly that he will not (come down) ; gets up a Geologi- 
cal demonstration of the most violent character, vsA fetches 
him down with a “rock.” 
When we remember that the youth of this Republic are 
trained to hold their faces during the above recital, exact- 
ly as though their sympathies were profoundly enlisted 
in behalf of the injured excellence under the tree, and as 
though combined “jorum” and “galoric” were a mild mix- 
ture for the boy in it ; and when we reflect that human 
sympathy, being of the nature of a wild asses* colt, shy 
and stubborn, can only be foreed at the hazard of hy- 
pocrisy, we may begin to tremble for the foundations of 
the social fabric 
On the oUier hand, had that Fable been so constructed 
as to illustrate the charming interest which old age should 
take in the pursuits of youth ; and the still more charming 
respect due from youth, who eats fruit, to old age, who 
raises it, we would have had by this time, a much larger 
number of intelligent Pomologists and ingenuous youth, 
than we are likely, within any reasonable period, to be 
blest with. 
To have model orchardists, v/e must adopt the rule 
which prevails as to the orchard ; that is, we must begin 
v/ith very young plants. We should be very careful to 
relieve the character of any fruit from imputations of 
sevile wrath and juvenile stone-bruises ; for these, being 
the “fun of the thing,” enter so largely into its flavor, as 
materially to impair the nice discrimination in matters 
of taste which it is our business to cultivate. 
Children of all ages have a singular propensity to injure 
fruit trees, especially in respect of knocking the bark off. 
True, they have herein not only the illustrious example 
of Washington, but the published precepts of certain more 
modern cultivators. As it is probable, however, that a 
tree is a little better off for its bar’k, especially in a rabbit 
country, a due regard should be had to this in the rearing 
of our young nursery-man. 
A child (of any age) that “chunks” a tree, should be 
taught, on the spot by a twigular application of “lex 
talionis” that the tree can hurt back. 
There is, however, very little difficulty in establishing 
a mutual good understanding between a child and a fruit 
tree. The foundations of it are laid deep in the nature 
of things, and they will not disappoint the generous care 
that judiciously builds thereon. 
Give the child a tree. Let it be a marvel of its kind for 
thrift, beauty and productiveness. Guard it like Argus ; 
let him perform every manual operation conducive to its 
welfare; and do you see that nothing is neglected that 
shall insure the earliest success — for early success is alife- 
long stimuloMt. Then, if you shall fail to see a develop- 
ment in the boy’s mental and physical nature, commen- 
surate v/ith the care and expense, you still have in re- 
serve the pop-gun and the poney, the plantation and 
hands, the idleness and isolation to which his nature con- 
demns and qualifies him. 
It sometimes seems as though there was no place for 
the moiety of the rising generation. The profession crowd- 
ed ad nauseam ; the governmental offices beyond an honest 
man’f hope, or a decent man’s desire ; and daily labor 
under our Southern sun, a condition to which no father 
would condemn his child, if he could help it; yet, if one 
were called upon to select an entirely new business, on 
which to predicate the future of his offspring, I don’t 
know of one to which he should more seriously incline 
than that which both the soil and climate as well as taste 
and temper concur to make the most delightful, and which 
the want, alone, of proper knowledge and early training 
fails to make the most profitable— I mean, of course, fruit 
raising. 
Isn’t it time to raise Fruit Raisers 7 T. 
Torch-Hill, 1859. 
GRAPES — A SUCCESSION. 
A very careful amateur, who cultivates the Grape near 
Atlanta, Ga., gives us the following list and time of ripen- 
ing there. With us, the same varieties are from one to 
three weeks earlier : 
“Leaving out Foreign Grapes, and with the lights be- 
fore me, I would adopt, for a succession of crops, the fol- 
lowing list. Remember that Black Hamburg has been 
truly splendid; so has Purple Hamburg and several others 
of that class : 
Lenoir, 25th of July to 10th of August, 
Concord, 1st of August to 15th, 
Diana, 5th of August to 20th. 
Delaware, 1st of August to 25th. 
Catawba, 10th of August to 15th of September. 
Elsinboro, 15th of August to 30th of September. 
Norton’s Seedling, 20th of August to 1st of October. 
Warren, 1st of September to 15.h of October.” 
Fair of the Cotton Planter’s Association. — Ar- 
rangements are now making to hold a Fair in this city, 
on the first week in December. We learn that the neces- 
sary funds far premiums, fixtures, &c., are mostly raised. 
V/e have not seen the general programme, and, therefore, 
cannot now give the particulars. Macon will, no doubt, 
do her best to sustain her former reputation in such mat- 
ters. — Macon Journal cf* Messenger, Aug 1“. 
