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SOUTHERN CULTIVATOR. 
natural productions of the same latitude and similar soil. 
I have more than once, heretofore, given, for publication, 
what I knew of these two vines, and think Mr. Thurmond 
may be assured of what is here stated. 
Respectfully, J, Crawford. 
Early County, Ga., Nov., 1855. 
PSUITS AND FLOWERS. 
When God first framed this world of ours. 
For beauty and for love. 
Each attribute would try its powers, 
Its varied skill would prove. 
All, all, but Mercy had a share, 
And she stood silent by, 
Gazing upon the work so fair, 
With earnest, longing eye. 
The Father saw her darling face, 
And read her wishes too. 
And said, “It is a sinless place, 
What is there you can doF'’ 
She quickly sent her searching eye 
Throughout earth’s fresh green bowers, 
Then murmured with a gentle sigh, 
“There’s neither fruit nor flowers.” 
A smile the wished commission gave 
Then swift as light she flew, 
Her wings of violet to lave 
In Eden’s morning dew. 
Up rose the sun, but what a sight 
Met his admiring view — 
The bursiing budsspeaR their delight, 
Through tints of richest hue. 
The flowers on every side look up 
With wonder to the sky ; 
While nestled in each tiny cup. 
Fruit germs lay lovingly. 
New songs were borne upon the breeze. 
New joy earth’s dwellers feel ; 
For e’en the birds and humming bees, 
Tlieir bliss cannot conceal. 
But when this happiness to spoil. 
The monster sin appeared, 
Thistles and thorns from out the soil. 
Their heads as quickly reared. 
Then Mercy wept, for well she knew 
She had no power to stay 
Tlie curse that man upon him drew. 
By leaving wisdom's way. 
But still her work she might pursue. 
And soften his sad hours — 
Choice Fruit upon the rough thorns grew, 
Upon the thistles. Flowers. 
A ITEW SOUTHERN ORNAMENTAL PLANT. 
Editors Southern Cultivator — Botanists and florists 
are now ransacking the remotest corners of the world, 
often risking their health or even life, in order to discover 
new and rare plants. Everybody wants novelties, plants 
that “nobody else” has got. It is bea'iitiful enongh,'^ 
they say, “but it is so common, everybody has it.” Oh, 
that I had a plant, no matter how ugly, that only grew 
in the moon, and I were the sole proprietor of it here on 
earth ! How it would sell ! I would make a fortune by 
it, while many of our native beauties of the vegetable 
kingdom are passed by unnoticed, yea ! looked down upon 
with contempt, just because they grow wild. Many of 
them deserve to be introduced to our gardens, and become 
objects of admiration. 
Among them is a lovely little flower, growing on poor, 
sandy soil in Georgia and South Carolina, though very 
scarce. 
It has, so far as I know, never yet found its way to the 
florists of the North or of Europe. In vain have I tried to 
find a description of it in botanical works, and have, 
therefore, until a better botanist shall name it, called it 
Polygonum ter eti folium^'’ as it evidently belongs to that 
genus. 
It is a perennial, with very fine, fleshy awl-shaped foli- 
age, resembling that of Mesevibryanthemum aurantium, 
but finer and more delicate. From June until arrested by 
frost, it throws up an abundance of flower-stems about 2 
feet high, producing a succession of large panicles of beau- 
tiful bell-shaped, v/hite flowers, resembling those of Erica, 
gracilis, or of “ Scotch Heath,” but pure white. I have 
cultivated it for many years, and it is now indispensable 
with me for bouquets. In fact, the smallest sprig of it in 
a bouquet will draw the attention of any lady much 
quicker than would the finest bud M a moss rose, 
I have never seen this plant affected either by heat or 
drouth. It is, in fact, a flower which I should deem in- 
dispensable in any flower garden. 
Robert Nelson. 
Troup Hill Nursery, Macon, Ga., 1856. 
THE WARREN AND HEEEEMONT GRAPES. 
Editors Southern Cultivator — What is the Warren, 
or Warrenton Grape 7 What is its history 7 Some say it 
is the Herbemont — some say not. In this uncertainty, 
Mr. Longworth is procuring cuttings of the Warren to 
test its qualities as a wine grape ; although he cultivates 
the Herbemont largely. Yours, Windsor. 
Atlanta, Ga., Jan., 1856. 
Remarks.— The letter of Mr. Longworth, in our Janu- 
ary number, and the article of Mr. Crawford, in present 
issue, contain about all the reliable information which we 
have on this subject. — Eds. 
VALUE OF THE APPLE— SOUTHERN SEEDLINGS. 
With us (says the editor of the Albany Journal) the 
value of the Apple as an article of food is far underrated. 
Besides containing sugar, mucilage and other nutritious 
matter, apples contain vegetable acids, aromatic qualities, 
&c , which act powerfully in the capacity of refrigerants, 
tonics, and antiseptics; and when freely used at the sea- 
son of mellow ripeness, they prevent debility, indigestion, 
and avert, without doubt, many of the ills that flesh is 
heir to. The operators of Cornwall, England, consider 
ripe apples nearly as nourishing as bread, and far more 
50 than potatoes. In the year 1801 — which was a year 
ofmuch scarcity — apples, instead of being converted into 
cider, were sold to the poor ; and laborers asserted that 
they could “ stand their work on baked apples, without 
meat, whereas a potato diet required meat or some other 
substantial nutriment. The French and Germans use 
apples extensively, as do the inhabitants of all European 
nations. The laborers depend upon them as an article of 
food, and frequently make a dinner of sliced apples and 
