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SOUTHERN CULTIVATOR. 
grow, until they reach the top, when they may be left to 
hang over. Plow and hoe as usual ; plow deep in winter 
and in summer make use of a scraper. After this, the 
winter pruning is always, more or less, a repetition of this 
last; one spur,- and one or two bearing canes, according 
to the strength of the vine In pruning, let the cut be clean 
and close, leaving no small ends of dead wood, which 
will surely injure the old vine. 
SOWTHEHN FRUIT. 
They who would anticipate the ripening of the Peach 
in this climate, must needs depend upon orchards at the 
South ; but few who thus please their palates with Georgia 
or South Carolina importations are aware that, until with- 
a few years, all peaches eaten at the South had to be ob- 
tained at the North. The same was true of apples and 
pears, and of grapes, to a certain extent. Previous to 
1840, little or no attention had been paid to fruit-grow- 
ing in the South, and nurseries were unknown. The idea 
was prevalent that the sunny climate of the South was not 
adapted to the culture of fruit of certain kinds, because 
they were not indigenous to that region. Experiment, 
however, has proved satisfactorily to the contrary, and 
orchards and nurseries for every description of fruit are 
now to be found in all the more Southern States, One of 
the largest establishments of the kind is at Natchez, Mis- 
sissippi, It is believed that upwards of one thousand 
acres are now devoted to trees that were unknown 20 
years ago ; and these are trees not only peculiar to colder 
climates, but to more tropical regions. Of the latter, most 
varieties are as yet raised only in limited quantities ; but 
it is to be hoped that the present zeal for fruit culture that 
animates the South will so increase the produce of these 
luxuries, that out of their abundance they will be able to 
spare a portion for their less favored neighbors at the 
North, — N. Y. Jour, of Com. 
We clipped the above (says the Chronicle Sentinel) 
from a Southern exchange, in which we found it without 
comment. The old men of the South, who have feasted 
for “three score years and ten,” and even longer, upon 
much finer peaches than were ever grown, or can be 
grown at the North, will be quite surprised to learn that 
^^until within a few years ^ all peaches eaten at the South 
had to be obtained at the North /” 
This is, certainly, a wonderful discovery of the Journal 
of Commerce, and betrays a great want of knowledge on 
a subject on which it professed to enlighten the public. 
The truth is that a man, who has only eaten Northern 
peaches, does not know what a really fine peach is, and 
never will, until he has travelled South and plucked a 
peach in its full maturity from the tree and tasted its 
quality, 
THE EFFECT OF CHARCOAE ON FLOWERS. 
About a year ago I made a bargain for a rose bush of 
magnificent growth and full of buds, I waited for them 
to bloom, and expected roses worthy of such a noble plant, 
and of the praises bestowed upon it by the vendor. At 
length, when it bloomed, all my hopes were blasted. The 
flowers were of a faded color, and I discovered that I had 
only a middling multifiora, stale colored enough. I there- 
fore resolved to sacrifice it to some experiments which I 
had in view. My attention had been captivated with the 
effects of charcoal, as stated in some English publications. 
I then covered the earth in the pot in which my rose bush 
was about half an inch deep with pulverized charcoal. 
Some days after I was astonished to see the roses, which 
bloomed, of as fine a lively rose-color as I could wish. I 
determined to repeat the experiment; and, therefore, 
when the rose hush had done flowering, I took off the 
charcoal, and put fresh earth about the pots. You may 
conceive that I waited for the next spring impatiently to 
seethe result of this experiment. 
When it bloomed the roses were, as at first, pale and 
discolored; but by applying the charcoal, as before, the 
roses soon resumed their rosy red color. 1 tried the 
powdered charcoal, likewise, in large quantities, upon my 
petunias, and found that both the white and violet flow- 
ers were equally sensible to its action. It always gave 
great vigor to the red or violet colors of the flowers, and 
the white petunias became veined with red cr violet tints; 
the violets became covered with irregular spots of a blue- 
ish or almost black tint. Many persons, who admired 
them, thought that they were new varieties from the seed. 
Yellew flowers are, as I have proved, insensible to the in- 
fluence of the charcoal. — Paris Horticultural Revieio. 
GRAFTING THE GRAPE — THE TAYLOR |=„ 
Grape from Hentacky, &c. 
Our good friend, Samuel Miller, Esq., of Lebanon, 
Pa., sends us the following simple and easy mode of 
grafting the Grape. It will be seen that Mr. Miller re- 
commends the Work to be performed at an earlier season 
than many writers who have attempted to give us in- 
struction on thi'- point; and as he is one of cur most prac- 
tical and successful Grape growers, it will be well to fol- 
low his directions. The information respecting the Tay- 
lor Grape is also valuable ; and as we have procured some 
of the vines, we will endeavor to test it fairly in this 
climate : 
Friend Redmond — In answer to your inquiry respect- 
ing out door grape grafting, I would state that I have tried 
it at different periods in the spring, but never successful- 
ly, except when done very early — before there was the 
least sign of movement in the sap of the vine. Saw or 
cut off the stock one or two inches below the surface of 
the ground, or even three inches ; let this depend upon the 
suitableness of the stock, as it should be taken at a 
smocthe place, if possible, and yet not too near the 
spreading of the roots, or you will not have loom for the 
split. Use the common cleft mode of grafting, with 
the exception that where the scion is thick, cut the 
wedge shape out of the stock, instead of merely split- 
ting. This must be done neatly, so as to make a nice fit. 
I never use more than one bud, cut one inch above the 
bud and about two inches below ; use no cement; but if 
the graft is not quite firm in the stock, tie it so as to keep 
it from moving ; then draw the earth amund and press 
closely and firmly around the place of operation, and let 
the earth come up to the bud, but not cover it. Shade the 
eye with a little loose rubbish or straw, until it begins to 
The side-suckers must be kept rubbed 
or cut off to prevent their rubbing the 
graft. Sometime': I have dug below the 
collar and cut off the roots where they 
ceparate, and set a graft in each root, 
and have, by fall, a whole nest of plants. 
I have now eight Taylor vines in one 
stool. When performing upon the lat- 
teral roots, you must cut the graft long- 
er, Out of the Camack, Devereux, New 
Hanover, Pauline, and one other, last 
spring, that you so kindly sent me, I lost but one of them. 
Out of 15 strong stocks operated upon, but three failed. 
The Taylor Grape will, undoubtedly, prove a blessing 
ILLUSTRATION. 
