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our surface, to trust our nurslings to her generous bosom ; 
let us trust a little more to the teachings of our native soil 
and climate, and a great deal less to the wheedlings of our 
foreign barrow-knights, and we will soon infuse into our 
horticulture, the all important spirit of the Art — Simplicity 
and Grace. M. D. 
Columbus, Ga., Oct., 1858. , 
P. S. One of your correspondents asks for information 
in resard to Pears on Hawthorn. 
I can answer that I have Pears on Quince, budded in 
June last, and have just seen the same varieties, budded 
at the same time on “ Haw," and that the growth is equal, 
and the fruit-buds promising. The growth from the bud 
in June, till ^he last of August, varies from three to six 
feet. 
PLANT ORCHARDS, NOW. 
A Correspondent of the Country Gentleman thus la- 
ments his neglect to plant Fruit Trees properly and at 
an early day: 
“There is scarcely an individual who has not at 
some unlucky moment thoughtlessly dropped a word or 
performed an act which has given him painful reflections 
for years. In vain has he wished it recalled. Fruitless 
has been his endeavors to heal the breach. The act w’as 
performed, and its effect is doing its painful work. The 
individual could only sigh his regret that his indiscretion 
could never be amended. 
The writer of this article has committed an error w^hich 
has given him bitter regret. Unlike the adage which 
says, “misery likes company," he would commit his im- 
prudence to the wmild, that others may shun his miscalcu- 
lation, and avoid his remorse. 
Like many young farmers, I commenced with limited 
means. In debt for my land — buildings to be erected, and 
so many ways for my small funds, that I deferred to plant 
an orchard. In my strife for gain, years passed quickly, 
and often was I advised to make preparation for fruit, 
which I ever determined to do ; but there is always more 
to be done on a new farm than beginners usually have 
means to immediately accomplish. And when I should 
have had bearing tree®, I came to the conclusion to plant 
an orchard. Selecting, therefore, a piece of ground, which 
I esteemed fit for nothing else, in my haste I dug small 
holes, bending the roots to conform to their scanty place. 
The work was speedily done, and I flattered myself that 
I should soon reap a rich rev/ard ; for I began now to be 
in a hurry to enjoy the pleasures of fruit. But how sad 
was my disappointment — how keen my mortification, 
when 1 found that some of my tiecs perished the first sea- 
son, and some lingered along for several years, and ap- 
parently died very hard. A few, however, after some 
years, began to make a feeble growth. It is well known 
4hat farmers have a great pride in raising good crops, and 
when a failure through miscalulation occurs, they are very 
sensitive of shame. As a person would reluctantly visit 
a room where his fillies were vividly pictured before his 
face on the wail, so 1 avoided the parcel of ground con- 
taining my [badly planted] trees. 
I'hus has the best part of my life been deprived of the 
wholesome enjoyment of fruit, in the .season when the 
evenings are long, and when fatigued by reading, have I 
perfectly longed for apj-les, but they were not. Still the 
denying so great a privilege cannot be compared to the 
sensitive feelings, (know'n only to parents) when rny 
children woul 1 look so wishfully at their mates while 
they enjoyed the luxury ofwhicii my chihiren were denied. 
Then would I reproach myself for the stnpid neglect, 
which not only deprived myself but my children of the 
plea.sure which our Creator designed v/e mi»ht have, al- 
though wusely appointed to be obtained by labor and care 
Dollars and dollars have I paid for a scanty supply, while 
some of my neighbors are realizing from a single tree $10 
per season ; and as one acre would contain 50 trees, this 
would give, at the above rate, S‘500 [per acre] a year. 
I would advise every farme^ by the consideration oi 
both comfort and wealth, to take care for fruit. S. B.” 
PROLIFIC CUCUMBER. 
Editors Southern Cultivator — In my article in a 
late number of the Cultivator, describing a cucumber 
vine, growing in the garden of A. J. Nichols, Esq., of 
Clarksville, I promised to report progress from time to 
time if found worthy of further notice. As the story of 
this wonderful vine is growing on my hands to such an 
enormous size, I find it necessary to deal it out to you by 
piece meal, for fear you will be not able to bear it, were I 
to communicate all at one time. 
Up to this time, Sept. 3d, said vine, {a single vine,') has 
produced 700 fine sized cucumbers, with a fair pros- 
pect of lOO more at least, and perhaps more ; beat it who 
can ' 
Some 30 or 40 of the first it bore, were permitted to 
grow to ordinary size for table use, 2 were permitted to 
ripen for seed, and the balance were saved for pickles, 
avaraging from 3 to 4 inches in length. Mr. Nichols kept 
a daily record of the product for the entire month of Au- 
gust, but what it bore in July, was only kept in the ag- 
gregate without regard to date. If you would like to have 
the daily yield, I will send it in my next. 
What I have related above, can be verrified by any 
number almost, of reputable witnesses in the village. 
This is no Morus Multicaulis speculation, but the sober 
truth. Mr. Nichols has no seed for sale, but will give all 
he has away, reserving a few for planting next year him- 
self. 
Herein, is a few enclosed from him to yourself. I have 
frequently examined this vine, and have seen 11 cucuns- 
bers on a length of 2 inches of it, and have seen 7 cucum- 
bers growing in a cluster form the axil of a single leaf, in 
truth, from the axil of nearly every leaf, grew from 2 to 7 
cucumbers. 
This must be a new variety, as Mr. Nichols had a 
number of other vines from the same lot or paper of seeds, 
but none of them were at all remarkable, this single vine 
' has producea more than 30 or perhaps 50 of the others 
have done. 
The calculation was as follows: It was planted in a 
rather low moist portion of the garden, on a made soil of 
some two feet in depth, where a corn crib stood for some 
years, no manure was used, the vine was trained on a 
bush some six feet in height, and about the same in di- 
ameter, the ground was watered in the evening during the 
dry weather, when it became dry; but during the rainy 
weather it received no other attention than to spread and 
conduct the vine about over the bush. 
The present size of the stem near the ground is about 
Is inches in diameter. I forgo^to mention: that the leaver 
on the lower part of the vine were pulled off from day to 
day, as they commenced dying, so that it is now nearly 
naked, with the exceptioa of the ends, which are vigor- 
ous and still producing abundantly, 
J. Van Buren. 
Clarksville, Ga., September, 1857. 
Recipe for Mending Brore.n China. — Take a very 
thick solution of gum arable in water, and stir into it 
plaster of Paris until the mixture becomes a viscous 
paste. -Apply it with a brush to the fractured edges, and 
stick them together. In three days the article cannot 
attain be broken in the same place. The whiteness of the 
cement renders it doubly valuable. 
