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SOUTHERN CULTIVATOR. 
Fruit Scions. — We are under especial obligations to that 
very zealous pomologist, Rev, Joseph L. Moultrie, of 
Union Springs, Ala., for scions of several rare and «hoice 
seedling apples and pears — the fruit of one of the former of 
which is said to hang on the tree uninjured until March. 
Mr. Moultrie has done much towards the dissemination 
of the finest varieties of our Southern native fruits, and is 
entitled to the thanks of all lovers of the good gifts of 
Pomona, 
GEORGIA POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 
A very zealous amateur writes as follows. We give 
his letter almost verbatim ; but deprecate most earnestly 
anthing like antagonism toward the State Society, which 
has done and is doing the cause of Agricultural improve- 
ment good service. That many errors have crept into its 
management, and that its awards have not always been 
impartially or properly bestowed, we freely admit ; but 
wc trust these matters will right themselves after a while. 
In the meantime, we go in heart and hand for the organi- 
zation of a permanent and spirited Pomological Society — 
one that will do soviething toward correcting our very 
defective fruit nomenclature and developing our unrival- 
led horticultural resources. Let our readers give free ex- 
pression to their thoughts on this subject, through our 
columns ; 
“ I will unite with you most heartily in getting up a 
Pomological Society. The Southern Central Agricultural 
Association, it seems to me, is in many respects, somewhat 
impracticable. It is now offering premiums for Coffee 
plantations, and domestic or home made manufactures of 
silk and other things, quite as useless— things that can 
■never be grown or made here successfully — when not a 
-single premium is offered for domestic wine, or samples of 
home grown wool— two articles that could, with proper 
encouragement, t'C placed next to cotton on the scale of 
commerce and national wealth, to say nothing of the 
great influence on t!ie morals and health of the people, 
from the substitution of pure home made wine as a beav- 
erage, as in France, Itaily and Spain, for the poisonous 
and adulterated spurious liquors, wliicli ysi'-e almost exclu- 
sively used in this country. 
“Therefore, start a Pomological Society, in the name ofal! 
that is good and u.'^elul, as well as tastelul. Let it have not 
the remotest connection with any other Society, &c.” 
SUGAR IN LOUISIANA. 
The Poinle Ctrupee of A pril 5 says: — From all 
•sections of out parish we hear ofnothing but the most dis- 
couraging accounts of the coming sugar crop / Owing to 
the utter worthlessness of the stubble and-a defect in a 
large quantity of the seed cane, many of our planters will 
not be able to grind at all 'the coming season, and not a 
few will scarcely make sufficient cane for seed for '57. 
3fany foreseeing the inevitable failure, have plowed up 
the old stubble, and in the stead, put in large crops of corn 
and cotton. A very wise precaution, we think, as all will 
see a little later in the season. 
R.MtE Seed.s. — T he Commissioner of Patents, (Hon. C. 
Mason,) and Hon. A. H. Stephi'.ns, of Georgia, will ac- 
cept our thanks for several packages of very choice 
seeds, which we hope to find valuable for our climate. 
The “Rescue” and “Tall Oat” Grasses. — A lady 
friend, of Mississippi, to whom we are indebted for many 
favors, writes : 
“I shall continue to get you all the subscribers I can, as 
I consider the CvMivator indispensable to all planters and 
gardeners. I wish I had time to say a word for the 
“Rescue Grass.” It now looks finely, notwithstanding 
the severe winter ; but Col. Stanford’s grass (the “Tall 
Oat”) is glorious !” 
Georgia and her Railroads. — Georgia is nearly 
chequered by railroads, and yet she stands before the 
world with a debt of only $2,624,221 against her on the 
balance sheet. No other State in the Union can point to 
the same amount of works of internal improvement and 
show so small an indebtedness. 
CONDENSED CORRESPONDENCE OE THE SOUTHERN 
CULTIVATOR. 
Fruit, Wheat Crops, <^c^in Cherokee, (ja. — A friend, 
near Rome, Ga,, writes us as follows, under date of April 
25th: 
“We are through the “full moon of April” and have es- 
caped unharmed by frost. Those who do not remove the 
great excess of peaches this year will have their trees 
ruined. 
“Wheat looks finely through the country, but is very 
thin indeed, having been badly winter killed. All unite 
in the opinon that the crop of this section of the State 
must be a .short one. Some anticipate high prices, but the 
state of the New York market does not ecourage such an 
expectation. 
“Cotton and Corn are doing well, but for the dry wea- 
ther. We need rain to bring cotton to a stand 
“Bacon is down again; so the poor can get their fill 
once more. Nothing pays here now but bread and n.eat. 
B.” 
A Nero Grape — Southern Claret — Straioherries, <$'C. — A 
horticultural friend, says: 
“A Grape, '•Hard Barsac,' from which a claret wine is 
made in the vicinity of Bordeaux, in France, grows 
in Macon ; it is of a rampant growth, and bore, last year, 
two crops. The owner of it is a particular friend of mine, 
and gave me a few cuttings, which are doing well. 1 will 
watch this grape closely, and if suited to this climate, as 
I think it is, we will have to give it a new name, in order 
to make it interesting and profitable. What an excellent 
thing, if we could make our own claret! True, Ameri- 
cans don’t like it; it "ruins their mouth,” they say, and 
therefore, in order to have a “fine m.outh,” tliey’d rather 
eat tobacco ! ! 
“All the Strawberries 1 got from you are doing finely ; 
Lonpu-orW s Prolific is the earliest, it commenced ripening 
on the 20th April — more than a week before others. Is it 
the same with you ? The Rochelle Blackberry will also 
come to bearing this year with me.” 
Cotton Gins — Ijrvg Staple. — A planter ofThomas Co., 
Ga , makes the following inquiry. Can any of our read- 
ers give the desired information 1 
“1 have embarked in the culture of Long Cotton, and 
shall have from 40 to 50 bales to gin next fall. The gin- 
ing upon the Shafer and McCartney Gin has proved very 
tedious and annoying to planters through this section, 
some of them have half their crops on hand yet. Now, 
sirs, if you can inform me, by midsummer, of a better gin 
than either, you will confer a great fiivor.” 
