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NEW PTJBLTCATICNS. 
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proper ^lethnd ofCulture and Manntactine — Value ass 
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Plant, &,c., &/f.; including Reports of many Practical 
Expernnenls in llie Soiitli, and other poriious of the 
United State.s. Compiled from various authentic sour- 
ces. By D. Rrd-Mond. Associate Editor of the Soyf/iern 
CuUivaJor. Augusta. Ga.: Steam Power Press of tjie 
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This little pamphlet contains but a small portion of the 
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value of this new plant, which has succeeded admirably 
in all parts of the Union. The bare cost of printing is all 
the publishers desire, and the pamphlet will, therefore, be 
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MoRG.iX Horses: a Premium Essay on the Origin, His- 
tory and Characteristics of tiiis remarkable American 
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Justin Morgan, through the most noted of his progeny, 
down to the present time. With numerous . Portraits. 
To which are added Hints for Breeding, Breaking, and 
general Use and Management of Horses, with practical 
Directions for Tiaining them for Exhibition at Agricul- 
tural Fairs. By D. C. Lindsey, ot Middlebury. Vt. 
New York : C. M. Saxton & Co., Agricultural Book 
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man's Library. _ 
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' Downing’s Landscape Gardening, 
j .Munn’s Practical Land Drainer. 
Elliot’s American Fruit-Grower’s Guide in Orchard and 
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[ .Dana’s Jlnck hlanujrl for the use of Farmers. 
The Stable Book. 
Vs'hite’s Gardening for the South. 
Jolinston's Agricultural Chemistry. 
Norton’s Elements of Scientific Agriculture. 
Naslfs Progressive Farmer. 
Alien on the Culture of the Grape. 
American Bee-Keeper's Manual 
Buist's American Flower-Garden Directory. 
Euist's Family Kitchen Gardener. 
Every Lady Her own Flower G.trdener. 
Dadd s American Cattle Doctor. 
Browne’s Field Book of Manures. 
Randall’s Sheep Husbandry. 
Youatt and Martin on Cattle. 
Yonatt on the Horse. 
Pedder’s Farmer’s Land Measurer. 
Stockhardt’s Chemical Field Lectures for Agriculturists. 
Thaer’s Agriculture. 
Guenon on Alilch Cows. 
Atuerican Poultry Yard. 
Allien’s Rural Architecture. 
Reemelin’s Vine-Dresse.i’s Manual. 
Saxton’s Bural Hand Books. 
Boussingault’s Rural Economy. 
The Skillful Housewife. 
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Prairie Land: the capacity of which, for the abundant 
production of Cotton, has often been doubted. 
Ulorticnltatal Stpartiiitni. 
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D. B. Plume & Co., of this city. They will mail a copy 
to any person who will enclose them two postage stamps 
(6 cents) and we advise all our readers to send for it. 
Fine H.vms. — We are indebted to Cilandler & Co., of 
Chattanooga, Tenn , for a sample box of very superior 
Hams. The Bacon ot tins house has received first premi- 
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& Co., of New York, is )io\v on a tour through tl;e South 
lor tbe purpese of disposing of the valuable rural publica- 
tions of this ve; y enterprising firm. Every family living 
in the country and owning land should possess a complete 
Agricultural Library, and our readers upon whom Mr. .S. | 
GRAPE CULTURE IN THE SOUTH* 
Editor.s Southern Cui.tivator — I feel much indebted 
to filr. Ax-rfor his reply in your October number to some 
inquiries I made of him through your columns in Septem- 
! ber; and I am plea.sed to find that he desires to discuss 
j the subject courteously, and in that spirit of liberality due 
I to this great cause in which we are both, laboiing. The 
I field is wide enough for both of us and thousands besides; 
and all wlio will assist in making any section of the 
United Stat-‘,s a wine growing region — and hence a lem- 
peroJe one — will be public benefactors. 
Jn previous articles on Grape Culture in your journal, I 
have said that 1 con.sidered tlie mountainous districts of 
Geoi'iria. North Carolina and Soulli Carolina. &c., &c., 
I more favorable for this cultivation than any other portion 
! of the United States. I think so still, and am confirmed 
1 in this belief by the statements of 31r. Axr, and several 
other gentleman of Georgia from whom I have recently 
received Utters on this subject. 
The statement of the product of tb.e Catawba Grape 
Vine in the Georgia Vineyards is to me astounding. An 
average ot 40 bunches of well matured grapes to the vine, 
on vineyards only 3 years old from the cutting! and 
double that quantity on 4 and 5 year old vines is such an 
enormous crop that I could scarcely believe it possible, 
had not respectable gentlemen a'^sured me that it was so 
in reality. Heie in the Ohio G alley, we call GOO to 800 
