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native Southern Apples, introduced by jNIr. Van Bl'REn, 
Dr. Baldwin, Host. Nelson, Rev. J. L. Moultrie, and 
others, and shall devote increased attention to the subject. 
The Apple, with us, seldom, if ever, fails of producing a 
crop. 
Robert Nelson, A. M. — H. L. M. — This gentleman is 
at Yazoo City, Miss., and all letters intended for him per- 
sonally, should be addressed to that place. 
ENLARGING THE CULTIVATOR. 
Editors Southern Cultivator In your October 
number, page 300, Mr. G. D. Harmon proposes to be “one 
of 5000 of your subscribers, who will send you one new 
subscriber, at least, and as many more as we can.” You 
annex remarks to his proposal, “that if it is respond- 
ed to in the right spirit, prior to the first of December, you 
will, the next year, give your readers a journal as large 
and handsome as it is admitted to be useful and practical.” 
As a subscriber, I respond to the proposition, and en- 
•close you one dollar, paid me by A. H. W,, for the back 
numbers of the present volume, and this subscriber wish- 
es to be continued for the next year. This is equivalent 
to two subscribers. I expect by the 1st of December to 
send you two or three more gold dollars for new subscri- 
bers, and another dollar for this subscriber for the next 
year. 
Washlngtony Texas, Oct., 1857. 
[We have received the gold dollar enclosed, and will 
forward numbers for present volume to A. H. W., as di- 
rected. If all or even half oi our subscribers were as 
generous and as devoted to “the cause” as B***, and Mr. 
Harmon, it would be an easy matter for us to enlarge our 
journal; but the responses to Mr. Harmon’s proposition 
are so few, and the “times” so stringent, that we must be 
content to retain our accustomed form and size for the pre- 
sent. We trust, however, that this circumstance will not 
prevent our friends from making all due effort to extend 
our circulation, which has never yet (be it modestly 
spoken !) reached the half of what its merits, and the ag- 
ricultural interests of the country entitle it to. — Eds.] 
NEW ADVERTISE3IENTS. 
A Card to Southern Fruit Growers. 
Fruit and Ornamental Trees, Plants, &c. 
Dutch Bulbous Roots. 
Co-Partnership Notice. 
Pomona Hall Nursery. 
The Double-Acting Circle-Adjusting Plow. 
Augusta Nursery. 
Southern Machine Depot. 
Downing Hill Nursery. 
Grass Seed. 
Imported Garden Seed. 
Peabody’s Prolific Corn, &c. 
Close of the Volume. — The present number closes 
our Fifteenth Volume. We pledge ourselves to the con- 
tinuation of our best efforts for the advancement of agri- 
culture and horticulture in the South, and confidently rely 
upon the generous and appreciative support of the public. 
All subscriptions should be renewed at once, and as many 
new names added to our lists as possible. 
The Index to present Volume, accompanies this num- 
ber and will be found very complete. It may be detached 
from the centre of the sheer, and put in its proper place, 
at the beginning of the volume. 
OUR BOOK TABLE. 
A Treatise on Surveying; in which the Theory and 
Practice are fully explained. Preceded by a short Trea- 
tise on Logarithms : and also by a Compendious Sys- 
tem of Plane Trigonometry. The whole illustrated by 
numerous examples. By Samuel Alsop, author of a 
“Treatise on Algebra,” etc. Philadelphia: E. C. & J. 
Biddle, No. 508 Union street. 1857. 
This is one of the most elaborate and perfect works on 
Surveying that has yet fallen under our notice, and can- 
not but be of very great service, not only to those who 
practice that art as a profession, but also to the farmer, 
planter, land-owner and student. The contents of Chap- 
ter Four will especially interest agriculturists, as that 
chapter explains the easiest and simplest method of as- 
certaining the contents of particular fields or portions of 
enclosures. The work is a large and well printed octavo 
of over 400 pages, and it can be obtained per mail, free of 
postage, at $l 75, by addressing E. C. & J. Biddle, 
Philadelphia, Pa. 
Illustrated Annual Register of Rural Affairs, for 
1858. With 130 engravings Number Four. Al- 
bany, N. Y. Luther Tucker & Son, publishers. 
John J. Thomas, Editor. 
This is a very neat duodecimo volume of nearly 150 
pages, containing practical hints and suggestions on 
Country Dwelling.*:, Laying out Grounds, What Fruits to 
Choose, Domestic Animals, Fruit Culture, Farm Build- 
ings and Implements, School Houses, Butter and Cheese 
Making, Rustic Seats and Structures, Rural and Domestic 
Economy, Weights and Measures, &c., &c. It is richly 
worth five times the price asked for it, and may be ob- 
tained, free of postage, by enclosing 27 cents in stamps to 
Luther Tucker & Son, Albany, New York. 
The American Water Cure, and The Phrenological 
Almanacs, besides muchfspecial information on the sub- 
jects to which they are devoted, contain no inconsider- 
able amount of entertaining miscellaneous reading, with 
the usual Calendars, &c., for 1858. Price 6 cents each, 
or 25 copies for S' 1. Address: Fowler & Wells, 308 
Broadway, New York City. 
An Essay on the Preservation of Health. By Good- 
WYN Nixon, M. D., of Lowndes, Ala. 18.57. 
This is a somewhat “quaint and curious” pamphlet, 
which, as the author frankly avows, was “ written to 
while away time.” The style is lively, piquant and con-' 
versation d; and while we do not consider ourselves com- 
petent to pronounce upon the correctness of all the author’s 
conclusions, there is one from which we have no desire 
to dissent, viz: that “Good ripe fruit is a means of obvi- 
ating disease. It cools ike blood, and robs it of the germs of 
fever and inflammation ; it opens the bowels, and lulls the 
excitement of the system. After a winter of meat and 
bread, how anxiously we hail the advent of summer, with 
its luscious iruits ! and what delight it gives our organs 
of taste, so long inured to the stale di.shes of winter ! ’Tis 
not unlike passing through some parching Sahara, and 
coming to an oasis, where our cars are ravished with the 
euphony of gushing waters.” 
We are under obligations to the author for a copy of 
the work, for which he has our thanks. 
