SOUTHERN CULTIVATOR 
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PEABODY’S PROLIFIC CORN. 
T he Subscriber is now prepared to furnish SEED of this invaluable variety of grain. I will put it up in sacks of one bushel, half 
bushel, peck, and quart, and furnish it at the following rates : For sacks of one bushel $10, half bushel $5, peck $3, or (piart 50 
cents. This Com grows like the Wyandot, but is altogether superior for Southern culture, both as a stock corn and for bread, weighuig 
near as much again as the Wyandot, each seed producing from two to seven tillers, each tiller producing ears like the main stalk, one 
grain often producing twenty ears of com. The ears are full and large, with a heavy firm grain, weighing, when shelled, over sixty 
pounds to the bushel. It is a first rate stock corn, and unrivalled for bread, as it makes a meal as white as flour. The seed that Inow 
offer is perfectly pure, as I aid not jjlant a grain of any other com the past season. Lands that will produce forty to fifty bushels of 
our common corn to the acre, will produce one hundred and fifty of this. My laud is common pine land, never having produced over 
fifteen bushels to the acre, with the best culture that I could give it. The past season, I manured a few acres with a single sack of 
guano to the acre. I have gathered and measured two acres, and notwithstanding the di'outh has cvit oft' at least one-fourth of the crop, 
the two acres turned me out oneliundred and cightxj bushels of shelled corn. This is the second year thatl have planted this com, and 
it not only holds out its astonishing productive qualities, but has increased in weight. Did it not produce a grain of corn, it is worth 
its price for the immense amount of fodder that it produces. A field of it growing looks like a field of mammoth wheat, so many tillers 
it produces. The tillers or suckers should not be removed, as they produce like the main stalk. One bushel o: seed will go as far as 
two of the common corn in planting, as it requires a greater distance. 
Orders may be addressed me at Columbus, Ga.; or, to my agents, Messsrs. King Sc Sorsby, Columbus, Ga.; and Messrs. J. A. Mor 
ton & Co., 40 New Levee, New Orleans ; Ruse, Davis Sc Long, Savannah, Ga.; Lee Sc Norton,' Montgomery, Alabama. 
As a supplj"^ of this most invaluable grain is quite limited, planters would do well to send in their orders early. 
CHARLES A. PEABODY. 
Columbus, Ga.. Oct. 1, 1856. 
THE PEABODY CORN. 
At the solicitation of Mr. C. A. Peabody, the undersigned accepted an invitation to visit his farm about the middle of July, when they 
were shown this extraordinary and very remarkable com. 
Its singular peculiarity consists in throwing out fruitful tillers, or suckers — all emanating from the roots, as is natural to rye or 
wheat. Upon two acres, said to have been manured with 148 and 1.52 pounds of guano, it was not uncommon to see, from one grain 
planted, as many as fom- and sometimes five stalks, besides the parent one, the greater proportion contaming three. These tillers were 
in size and height nearly equal to the origmal stalk ; on each of which we observed from two to four ears of medium, or respectable 
size, and all rapidly progressing to matmity. For some days previous, and after the period of our visit, the country was suffering under 
the influence of a severe drouth. 
The crop consisted of about forty acres, planted in rows five by four feet, one grain in a hUl. With the exception of the two acres 
above alluded to, no manure had been applied the present year, as informed by Mr. Peabody. The unmauured part did not promise so 
well, yet it was far superior to any we had ever seen on the same character of land. 
The entire farm is pine land, natm'aUy thin, and without the aid of some fertilizer, would not produce over ten or twelve bushels 
of the ordinary variety of corn, with propitious seasons. 
Should this com not deteriorate in after culture, from its being a Northern variety, it must prove a valuable acquisition to the farm- 
er and country. 
We submit this article as the means of suspending public sentiment until its merits or demerits can be more fully tested and known. 
B. A. SORSBY, 
JAS. M. CHAMBERS, 
WM. H. MITCHELL, 
WM. H. CHAMBERS, 
Columius, Ga., Sept. 18, 1856. J. C. COOK. 
COLUMBUS, Ga., September, 18, 1856. 
This is to certify that we, this day saw weighed on a pair of patent ballance scales, a half bushel of the Peabody com, the measure 
being sUghtly rounding, which we allowed for shrinking — and the weight was thirty-fom- pounds — equal to 68 pounds per bushel. 
A ’ B. A. SORSBY, 
Nov56— .3t JOEL E. HURT. 
CHINESE SUGAR CANE, OR SORGHO 
Sucre ! ! — Pure Seed ! ! ! 
|_LANDS IN SOUTH WESTERN GEORGIA 
For Sale. 
T he Subscriber offers for sale six improved PLANTATIONS, 
containiag fmm 750 to 2,000 acres each. Land fresh and in 
cultivation. 
Also 35,000 acres unimproved LANDS, situated in Dougherty 
and Baker counties. 
The whole of these lands were carefully selected, and cannot 
be surpassed for certainty of crops and durability. Teims easy. 
The Radroad from Macon will be completed to Albany . y 1st 
Sept, next ; thus giving easy a,ccess to all of the above named 
lands. Old settled plantations situated in Georgia or Alabama, 
within ten miles of a I’aUroad, will be taken in exchange, if desired, 
at their market value. W. W. CHEEVER, 
Albany, Ga., Oct. 10th. 1856. Nov56 — tf 
HOPEWELL NURSERY, FRSDERICKBURG, 
Virginia. 
T he Pi-oprietor of these Niu'series calls the attention of Tree 
Planters to his large stock of FRUIT and ORNAMENTAL 
TREES, <fcc., for fall planting. The propitious season has produc- 
ed finer gi'own trees than he has ever before offered. He would 
call especial attention to his list of Southern Apples, which.he 
grows in large quantities — his present stock is about 90,000 — em- 
bi'acing a large number of Virginia and North Carolina sorts, koep- 
ing the whole winter, and equal in size and quality to the most 
popular Northern sorts, w’hich ripen here, with few exceptions in 
he fall. 
Also a large stock of Standard and Dwarf PEARS, PEACHES, 
APRICOTS, NECTARINES, QUINCES, GRAPES, STR.A.W- 
BERRIES. ASPARAGUS ROOTS, ORNAMEN'^AL TREES 
and SHRUBS, EVERGREENS, ROSES, GREENHOUSE 
PLANTS, &c. 
E^^The facilities for shipping are equal to any in the country. 
*x*A new Catalogue just issued, and sent to all applicants. 
Nov56— 3t H. R. ROBEY. 
SOUTHERN CULTIVATOR FOR 1854. 
B ound volumes of the SOUTHERN CULTIVATOR for 1854 
may now be obtained at this office. Price, $1.50. Or we 
i win send it by maU, post-paid at $1 . 80. Address 
- Wlft. S. JONES, Augusta, Ga. 
, GARDENING FOR THE SOUTH 
I rp HE work, securely enveloped, w’ill be sent by mail (pre paid) to 
I JL any person remitting at the rate of one dollar and twenty-five 
1 cents per copy in postage stamps, or in the bills of any specie pay 
\ ing Banks. Address WM. N. WHITE, 
I May56— tf Athens, Ga. 
T he subscribers take great pleasui'e in infoiming the Planters, 
Farmers and Gardenei’s of the South, that they have secimed 
from the most reliable sources a limited supply of FRESH SEED, 
of this very valuable plant, the properties of which may be briefly 
summed up as follows : 
1st. One acre of the stalks, properly cultivated, wiU 5 deld from 
400 to 500 gallons of fine syrup, equal to the best New Orleans ; and 
from the same roots, a second crop of excellent fodder. 
2d. Sown broadcast or in close di-ills, on land deeply plowed 
and highly manured, it will yield from thirty to fifty thousand 
pounds of superior fodder to the acre. 
3d. It surpasses all other plants for soiling (feeding gi'een) and 
fodder, on account of the gveat abimdance of sugary juice which 
it contains ; and is gi-eedily eaten by stock of all kinds. 
4th. It bears repeated cuttings, like Egyptian Millet, gro'wing 
off freely and rapidl}', after each cutting. 
5tb. It stands drouth much better than common corn, retaining 
its gi-een color and juiciness even after the seed matures- 
6th. The seed is excellent for human food, whe; ' ground into 
meal, and fattens domestic animals very speedUy. From twenty- 
five to seventy-five bushels can be raised on an acre. 
7th. It is so certain and prolific a crop that planters maybe .sure 
of succeeding with it as a Sugar plant anywhere South af Mary- 
land and North of IMexico. If planted earl}* in the Southeni States 
the seed will mattire and produce another crop the same season. 
The seed, which has been very carefully kept pure, from 
the original importation, w ill be ofiered in cloth packages, each 
containing enough to plant half an acre, in drills, with full 
direction for the cultivcxtion, which is perfectly simple. 
These packages will be fonvarded per mail, fkkk of post- 
age, to any address, on receipt of $L.30 for each jjackage. When 
not sent by mail, we will furnish the packages at $1 each. 
Early orders are solicited, as the supply of good and reliable 
seed is quite limited. Applicants’ names will be entered in the or- 
der in which they are received, and the seed will be ready for mail- 
ing or delivery on the first of October. 
Addi-ess, with plain directions for mailing or shipping, 
, D. B. PLUMB Sc CO., Augusta, Ga. 
^^Pamphlets, containing full history and description of this 
plant, with valuable Reports on its merits, will be sent, postage 
free, to all who purchase seed, or who will enclose a three cent 
stamp. 
Dealers in seeds and country merchants can be supplied 
at a liberal discount from retail rate's, if their orders are received 
immefi’.tely. Oct56-tf 
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