SOUTHERN CULTIVATOR. 
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Columbus, Ga., Nov. Gth., 1858. 
Charles A. Peabody, Esq. — Dear Sir — I accept, with 
great pleasure the painting of your new Seedling Straw- 
berry. Mrs. Torrey has truly made a beautiful picture, 
and yet has done but simple justice to the fruit. I retain 
a very vivid recollection of my examination of the plant a 
few months since, and am greatly struck with the fidelity 
of the drawing now lying before me. 
As to the fruit itself, I must beg to repeat what I said 
then — that for size, beauty, flavor and lu.'curiance of plant, 
I have never seen a strawberry to compare with your 
Hautbois Seedling. You may safely stake your reputa- 
tion upon its success. I shall indeed be greatly disappoint- 
ed if your fellow-citizens, both North’ and South, do not 
fully appreciate this latest triumph of your genius in this 
department of Horticultural enterprise. 
I have great pleasure in subscribing myself, dear sir, 
very truly yours, Samuel H. Higgins, D.D. 
THE WINE TEST OF MR. AXT. 
Mr. Chas. Axt, of Crawfordville, Ga., already favor- 
ably known in this State as a Grape Grower, recently ex- 
hibited some specimens of wine in this city, made by him 
from the Catawba Grape, which were grown at his place 
during the years 1855 and 1858. There were two samples 
of the vintage of 1856 and one of 1855, known as dry 
Catawba. These wines bore the test triumphantly and 
were pronounced of good body and fruity taste. The 
wine of 1855 was considered the best, having improved 
by time. JMr. Axt (sa 37 s the Constitutionalist) has 
achieved for himself and for the South a great result in 
the succ essful introduction of this important branch of in- 
dustry into this State. His wine we would place in the 
front rank of American wines of the same class, equal to 
the best dry Catawba from Longworth’s or Week's cel- 
lars. 
CHINE.SE PROEIFIC PEA. 
Messrs. D. B. Plumb & Co. (the Agents) as well as 
ourselves, have received a large number of orders for this 
new and remarkable Pea, all of which are duly entered, 
and the Peas will be sent out about the first of February. 
We are authorized by the gentleman who raised these Peas 
to vw.rrant them fully up to his representations in all re- 
spects; and the concurrent testimony of his neighbors 
leaves no doubt of their great value. The quantity of 
seed on hand is quite limited, and early orders are there- 
fore advisable. 
Consolidation. — The Aniericna Cotton Planter and 
Soil of the South have been united, and will be hereafter 
published in the city of Montgomery, under the editorial 
charge of Dr. Cloud and CuAs. A. Peabody, Esq. Both 
these gentlemen possess excellent qualifications for their 
work, and will, doubtless, produce a first class Agricultur- j 
al Journal. Terms Si per annum. Address Dr. N. B 
Cloud, iMontgomery, Ala. • 
GARHEN SEED. 
Our friends, D. B. Plumb & Co., have now the largest 
and best assortment of Garden Seeds we have ever seen in 
this market. They will send Catalogues by mail and fill 
all orders promptly and with care. (See advertisement.) 
OUR BOOK TABEE. 
The American Poulterer’s Companion. — A Practical 
Treatise on the Breeding, Rearing and General JManage- 
ment of various species of Domestic Poultry, Illustrat- 
ed with portraits of fowls, mostly taken fi-om life ; Poul- 
try-Houses, Coops, Nests, Feeding-Hoppers, &c., &c. 
A new edition, enlarged, and improved. By C. 'N. 
Bement. With 120 illU'trations on wood and stone. 
New York : Harper & Bros. 
The “rage” for high-priced “model” Shanghais, and 
other aristocratic denizens of the poultry -yard, has passed 
away; but the taste for ornamental fowls is too natural 
and the luxurj'^ and economy of a well-kept Poultry Yard 
too generally appreciated, for country resident at least, 
ever to become indiflerent to the subject. We, therefore, 
hail with pleasure the appearance of our old favorite, 
Bement, so greatly “enlarged snd improved,” that we 
find it impossible to recognize in it the humble and unpre- 
tending volume over which we pored so eagerly some ten 
or a dozen years ago ; and from which we probably im- 
bibed a good share of that once wide-spread mania known 
as the “hen fever.” The present volume contains a vast 
amount of new matter ; about 100 finely-executed wood 
cuts, and some 20 colared lithographs, many of them of 
great fidelity and beauty, and is altogether superior in 
character and execution to any work of the kind yet pub- 
lished in this country. It wdil be found a useful and orna- 
mental addition to the library of any of our readers. 
For sale by Geo. A. Oates & Bro., Augusta, Ga. 
Report of the Commissioner of Patents for the year 
1 855. As^ricuUure. 
The Volume of Patent Office Reports for 1855 is of more 
than usual interest. It is embellished with three colored 
portraits of noted English Devons, and fine wood cuts o 
the Cashmere Goats of Mr. Peters, of Atlanta — also, pic- 
tures of various insects injurious to vegetation, outlines of 
Haarlem Lake, drained and undrained, &c., &c. Among 
the subjects treated of at length, we notice the following ; 
Animals (Domestic), Apples, Almonds, Apricots, Bees 
Cabbage, Cattle, Chineise Sugar Cane, Chinese Yam 
Climatology, Colza, Corn, Cotton, Crops, Dairies, Devon 
Cattle, Eggs, Exports, Fences, Fertilizers, Fodder, Forage 
Plants, Gardening, Goats, Grape Culture, Grass, Guano, 
Hay, Honey, Horses, Improvement of Land, Indian Corn, 
Insects frequenting the Cotton Plant, Lightning, Liquor- 
ice, Madder, Manure, iMeieorology, Milk, 3Iillet, Mules, 
Oats, Oil, Olives, Onions, Orange Trees, Oris Root, Palma 
Christi, Peas, Peaches, Pears, Pepper, Plums, Potatoes, 
Poultry, Raisens, Rice, Rye, Salt, Sheep, Sorgho Sucre, 
Sugar and Sugar Cane, Swine, Tamarind I Tea in the 
United States, Timothy, Tobacco, Turnips, Vanilla Plant, 
Walnut, Wheat, Wine, Wool, Yams, &c., (S:c. 
It may be obtained from the member of Congress from 
your District, and is well worth writing for. 
To Correspondents. — -Communications bearing the 
following signatures have been received, and are on file for 
examination and insertion: — J. 0. — -G. D. H.— John 
I Roberts — Parke Jones — E. J. Taylor— W". A. T. — W. N • 
! W.— J. H. V.— J. D. F.-R. B. N.-E. R. K — Dr, M. W. 
P. — Georgian — E. J. C. Vf.-— L. C. Gaines — J. B. H. — S. 
Heard-F. M. A.-J. F. E.-J. S. R.— F. B — W. H. S. 
— J PI J.— Rusticus-L. S. G.— W. H.— .S. R., dc. 
