SOUTHED N C L L Tl\ ATOll. 
neighbor of ours is making the Pear a speciality, having 
started an orchard of over 1000 trees as a beginning; 
and another, who has been most appropriately styled the 
“Pmr King, ’ has liundreds ot the choicest varieties, and | thought it best to give each one the Cheiokee name of 
more than tic-cn fy thousand Seedling Pears yet to be proved, j either the Indian or the stream where it originally grew. 
We shall shortly publish a series of articles on the culture j The Ducket, Cumack’s Winter Sweet and Maverick's 
perfect beauty, but as coarse grained atid as insipid as 
the Buff. 
The foregoing list of apples were nearly all originally 
found jirowing in old Cherokee Indian fields, and I iiave 
I Winter Sweet were found on the land of white men, and 
j I, therefore, have not given them Cherokee Indian names. 
of this particular fruit by one of the best living pomolo- 
gists, whose introductory appeared in our January num- ; balance of winter varieties that compose my orchard 
ber. "V/e feel the deepest interest in Fruit Growing in the j which I think first best arebut few, to wit; Yellow Crank, 
South, and will take a pride and pleasure in making the j Green Crank and Vincent; of these I know nothing of 
Odtha:«r tl,e medium of coramunicalin? all valuable I i 
i some amateur had them who is fond of a variety ot high 
g names and a long imposing catalogue. 
Respectfully your co-laborer, 
Silas McDowell. 
Sugarioicn F'ann, Macon Co., N. C., 1857. 
P. S. — There are a variety of opinions in regard to the 
apple I introduced as the “Nickajack” being the same as 
information on this sulject to our readers. — Eds. So. j goundin 
CfLT 
FRFII’^K.ANI) NUKSERY CATAL<)(^ 
f-in .'^eedliusr Apples best. 
JE — .SOI 
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D. REnM, VD, Praitlund Narscnj Augusta, Ga.\ 
Dear Sir : — 1 have just received I die “ Summerour.” The appearance and quality are cer- 
and examined your Catalogue of Fruit and Ornamental I i 
VT, J *• .1 J • ■ , i difference in the color ot the flesh as well as its taste. I 
Trees, and am .mpelled to give expression lo my hearty ! -f 
approval ot the course you are persuing in confining j ,,gxt Georgia Fair, where I purpose exhibiting both the 
your collection of Apples to a few and select varieties, ! apples. S. McD. 
and with >^pecial reference to their adaptation to our South- i . — 
* THE PEACH TREE — PROF. MAPE8* SY.STEia. 
evn .States. : 
It is a fast well known to Po.mologlsfs that though the j Wh copy the following excellent suggestion from the 
diiTereni, varieties of the Apple and the Peav embrace a | Horticnliwist, and a late number of the Wmking Farmen- 
great many hundreds of each, nevertheless, all those of the j We Imve seen Peach trees pruned in this way on the farm 
very best iiuality could be comprehended in a selec- j of Mr. Peters, in Gordon county, Ga., that surpassed ia 
don of oO fro.n each fiimily of these fi uits, leai ing the entire | vigor and beauty any that we liaveever noticed e'sewhere; 
long lists of the balance of second and ordinary quality ; , , . . w- t ’ 
and yet ncmiy all nurserymen persist in pmuding in their Newark, N. J..- 
long catalogues the high sounding names of hundreds of his superior skill and management. We have 
varieties of inferior quality and utterly unworthy ofculti- adopted it in all our new orchards. Let our readers give 
valion. I repeat it, f atimiie your judgment and resolu- | ^ . 
tion in thus depe.i ting from a custom so very common 
and injurious to the science of Pomology. 
Lhe'Zli years experience I liave had in making an or- 
chard of Winter Apples, my utter failure in the com- 
mencement by planting Northern varieties, and my ulti- 
mate success finally, by commencing anew with 8ouih- 
ern Seedlings, inspires me with confiience to speak bold- j 
ly and posiiiveiy on this subject 
assert the 
ON THE CULTURE OF THE PEACH. 
j BY .S -A MU EL T. 
JO.VES, THE CEDARS, 
YORK. 
•STATEN ISLAND, NEW 
As yon were pleased, in a late number, to intro.Iucc 
T , , some approbatory remarks upon my management of the 
], therefore, confidently i, , 
^ leach, It may not oe nninlercsting to some of your re.io- 
ers to have a statement more in detail. It is not unusual 
to hear of the degenerncy of the Peach tree — iliat it 1-. 
moie subject to disease than formerly, an i especially the 
if/'l/oirs—i\nd that the duration ot' ilie tree, in vigorou-, 
liealtli, is limited to some six or seven years. 1 have even 
heard the belief expressed, that the ifell urs was uansinit- 
ted, from generation to generation, by budding from trees 
^apparently iiealthy, and, also, that the infection vva.> 
I luude to spread from one tree to anmher. 
In my judgment, founded noon the experience of maiD'’ 
years, liiesc ideas are erroneoii.s not less than liiey arc m- 
jurions and dis*'Ouraging to the. propagatimi and wn' be 
ing oftlie tree 'I hrough ilie exercise of a little 'n.re a:; 1 
atieniion on the part of the grower, which is but a s.nall 
la-tuin for the generous load.s of delicmu.s f. uu yearly .■'iir 
nislied by ilds tree, 1 have been enabled i.. preserve nrost 
of them in lull vigor for a period uf upY^-rds of aixtram 
year.s 
'I'hc system I have followed first co.umi ti'-es in the n'r-.> 
The Becholor is large, render, juicy ami hri.tle i and V,..x I '’'il T" '"‘'’r!'' 
BuRSN.who is good author]., -, prenounccs i. the i ggS '1^ jop or ceulral brata-hc.s. turec or 
best of Autumn Apples ; witli care, howcvei . it keeps | 
well until March. i *We have also fine Soutliern Seedd^g Apples fron'r dm 
The Cullawhee i.s the 'V->-gA'5/ of all opples that grow : a I l)order> of Florida — D I 
the very latest and be.st Northern variety of 
Apple.s sou.h of 3M, north longitude, will be tiothing 
but an aniunin apple, and not hang well on its tree at tliat. 
I will also make another pompous a.ssertion, that I have 
now in my orchard twelve varieties of native Southern 
Seedling Winter Apples that cannot be surpassed for excel- 
lence of quality by any other variety in the United Stales, j 
Besides the varieties which 1 cl ,ini a , my own selection, J. i 
Van Buren, of Clarksville. Ca , has extender! his research- 
es far sou'll of the field of my opeiMuons, and has niade a 
valuable collection ot lute v .rieties of the Ajiple, which, ! 
no doubt, will grow and flourish side liy side with the j 
orange and the fig in Louisiana and Florida.* Tlie ad- i 
ditions 1 h.ive made to the liit of native Southern Seed- 
ling Winter .Apples, by bringing them to noti.-e, are tiiese: 
— Equinelely; Junaluskee; Carnack's Winter Sweet; 
AlavericU’s Winter Sweet; Cullasaga: Elarkee; Lucket; 
Niclcajack, if not a Summerour, Bachelor, and Cuiia- 
whee. 
All the above varieties are late keepers but the two last. 
