SOUTHERN CULTIVATOR. 
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years would serve to change the aspect of our impover- 
ished fields. 
This drain is not only wholly unnecessary, but it is the 
worst possible economy. We can, with proper prepara- 
tion, raise stock cheaper than it can be raised in Kentucky. 
The lower down the country towards the coast we go, 
the greater the economy of stock raising. It is true we 
have no lands in large bodies, equal to those of Kentucky, 
but our in.feriority in this respect is more than compen- 
sated by our superiority of climate. 
We sincerely trust that our Legislature will take this 
subject in hand. By imitating the wise legislation of 
New York, we can be saved from this heavy annual loss. 
H. 
The Fair of the South Carolina Agricultural So- 
ciety, will be held at Columbia, from the 8th to the lith of 
November. 
|>^”The Fair of the Alabama State Society, opens in 
Montgomery, on the 15th of November, and continues 
three or four days. 
The United States Agricultural Society has award- 
ed a gold medal to Fawkes’s steam plow “Lancaster,” 
and a premium of ^3,000 has also been awarded to it by 
the Illinois Central Railroad Company and the State Ag- 
ricultural Society. 
■ ■ '■ ■ 
“Torch Hill!” — A friend, whose criticisms are as 
genial and hearty as they are (sometimes) caustic— the 
well known and redoubtable “Broomsedge” — in alluding 
to aur pleasant and racy “Orchard Rambler” and rural 
Poet, “F. 0. T.,” says : 
“My compliments to ‘Torch Iliil !’ That chiel burns 
the brightest light I have followed lately,” &c. 
Yes I— “mighty little” smske about that torch — ’tis all 
“fat light ’ud” — sound, “heart pine” — an-I makes a blaze 
will do to “folthat low.”— Eds. 
laiticalturiil ItjiartiEeiii, 
THE POMOLOGICAE RESOURCES OF THE 
South. 
An Essay, read before the Anierican Pomological So- 
ciety f at its Seventh Session, held at Mozart Hall, in 
the city. of New York, Sept. 14, 15 and 16, 1858. 
BY D. REDMOND, ASSOCIATE EDITOR OF THE “ SOUTHERN 
CULTIVATOR.” 
[Concluded from our October number, page 315 ] 
NECTARINE. 
Tne Nectarine is quite extensively cultivated among us, 
as an open air “standard,” or orchard tree, and is equally 
as hardy as the peach. It bears as well and regularly as 
the peach, also; and is liable to the same enemies and dis- 
asters, with the addition of being far more attractiveio the 
eurculio, which finds easy access through its smooth and 
tender skin. We know ofonly one or two native Nectar- 
ines, of which the “Southern Queen” (while) is the best 
APRICOT. 
The Apricot grows vigorously, and is quite free from 
disease as a tree ; but its extreme earliness of blooming 
and the almost certain liability of the fruit being killed by 
spring frosts render it rather undesirable for orchard cul- 
ture. We occasionally, however, gather very fine crops, 
and feel assured that if the trees were trained en espalier, 
so that they could be slightly protected, we should be 
much oftener gratified. A few samples of Southern Apri- 
cots have been sold in New York market at from Sl,50 
to S2,25 per dozen; which prices would justify far more 
care and attention than this delicate and rare fruit gener- 
ally receives. A few native seedlings have been pro- 
duced; but the “Oglethorpe” is the only one of particu- 
lar merit that we are acquainted with. 
PLUM. 
The Plum grows vigorously everywhere in the South, 
and is not at all liable to the “black knot,” or other seri- 
ous maladies. It is, also, for some inexplicable reason, 
less subject to the attacks of the eurculio than at the North; 
and, when pigs and fows are confined within the Plum 
orchard, and allowed a free range, we generally find no 
difficulty in raising fair crops. We have a few new seed- 
lings of decided merit ; and have growing everywhere, in 
the borders of our woods, along water courses, and in old 
fields, several wild varieties of “Chickasaw” and “Chero- 
kee” Plums, scarcely inferior to many of the cultivated 
sorts. 
CHERRY. 
The Cherry can hardly be said to succeed well v/ith us, 
generally. The Morelios often bear good crops, and some 
of the finer varieties have partially succeeded, when work- 
ed on Mahaleb stocks, planted in rather moist soil, and 
trained with low, spreading heads. But we most cheer- 
fully yield the palm of superiority in Cherries to the 
North, which also possesses a climate more favorable than 
ours to the production of the Currant, the Gooseberry, 
the Raspberry, and, perhaps, the improved varieties of 
the Blackberry — though, with this latter fruit, farther ex- 
perience is necessary. Ail the v/ild varieties of the 
Bramble (including the Blackberry, Dewberry, &c ,) 
grow luxuriantly and bear profusely in our woods and 
fields; and this fact would seem to promise success with 
the Lawton, Dorchester, &c, 
GOOSEBERRY AND CURRANT. 
The Gooseberry and Currant — two tine garden fruits of 
the North and of Europe — cannot be profiiably cultivated 
in the South, and have been long since reluctanly discard- 
ed — nor have we had very^encouraging success, thus far, 
sviih the improved vo/rieties of the Rasberry. One or two 
varieties of Raspberries give us regular and good 
crops ; but shade, muiebing and a damp locality, are quite 
essential for even these. 
STRAWBERRY. 
The Strawberry is one of the most profitable and easily 
cultivated fruits of the South— beginning to ripen early 
in April, and continuing, if freely veatered, to give us a 
constant supply of fruit during 4 or 5 months. We have 
had Strawberries at Augusta, Ga , nearly four months in 
succession, without artificial watering — though the aver- 
age season is only about two to three months. Our na- 
tive American varieties succeed best — the climate being 
too hot for the English and other foreign sorts, so far as 
tested. 
THE JUJUBE AND THE OLIVE. 
The Jujube and ihe Olive may also be ranked among 
our fruit trees, and are worthy of attention, d'he Jujube 
is just now beginning tube Ireely introduced into our nur- 
series and gardens, and deserves a place in all tasrelu! col- 
lections. Jt lorins a medium sized tree, with very singu- 
lar, tortuous brandies, covered with long and formidable 
recurved thorns, and most beautiful, shining, dark greoa 
