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THE SOUTHERN CULTIVATOR. 
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By every principle ol cotnition justice and 
philanthropy, we should augment the natural 
productiveness of the soil at least 4 per cent, 
per annum, or double its truit in 25 years. 
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AUGUSTA, GA. 
VOt.. IV.. NO. T JClIiV, 1846. 
Roadside Trees. 
In no part of the U. States, except in New 
Jersey, have we seen anything like the state of 
things described in the, following extract from 
Mr. Loudon’s Arboretum. In that State, on 
Long Hill, there was, twenty years ago, an ave- 
nue of cherry trees of some miles in length. 
The trees grew by the road side, and every one 
passing took what he wanted, and no one ques- 
tioned his right to do so. The trees were very 
old when we saw them first, and we are under 
the impression that they were planted before the 
revolutionary war. They were, however, begin- 
ning to show the signs of having suffered from 
the spirit that, since the change ol our institu- 
tions from’colonial to National, has become so 
rife over the who'e country, and more especially 
over the Southern States — we mean that spirit 
that prompts people to destroy everything like 
trees, shrubbery and flowers , that does not be- 
long to themselves. Especially if the public 
should happen to own anything of the sort, in 
town orcountry, does it become an object of ei- 
ther plunder or destruction. We have seen a 
person in a public garden, the keeper being ab- 
sent, go to beating a choice shrub with his cane, 
and persevere until nothing but the naked stump 
was left. Another insisted on his right to take 
his dogs into a garden, because it was a public 
garden, to hunt rabbits. And, often, no sooner 
was the back of the keeper turned than the 
work of plunder began. Even in private 
gardens, in our towns, every tree or shrub, 
within reach from the street, frequently has 
its branches broken, and its whole form thus 
mutilated; so that now persons caring for such 
things carefully avoid planting so near the fence 
that it can be reached, anything of value, either 
for use or ornament. And as for planting ave- 
nues of fruit trees by the road-side, any one 
who would seriously propose such a thing would 
be laughed at as a fool. 
Nor is this spirit of Vandalism confined to the 
destruction of trees, shrubbery and flowers. If 
the public authorities shall set up mile posts on 
the public roads, they are destroyed or the fi- 
gures thereon are altered or effaced so as to make 
them useless. So too with finger boards at 
cross-roads ; no matter how carefully put up, 
they are soon either knocked down, or changed 
so as to mislead the traveller who shall depend 
on them. 
These things we have been assured were not 
so before the revolution : and it is a curious pro- 
blem yet to be solved, why they have become so 
under republican institutions. One thhrg is cer- 
tain, agriculturists suffer more from the preva- 
lence of such a spirit than any other class : — for 
beingin so large a majority they have it in their 
power to create a sound public opinion on this 
subect; and failing to do so, they have to bear 
the consequences in character, and in pocket 
especially. For with prudent men the value of 
real property is always seriously affected by the 
state of public opinion in the neighborhood on 
this very subject. No man, in his senses, will 
buy land in a neighborhood where rowdyism 
reigns supreme. 
To return to Mr. Loudon. In his Avboreium 
he says:— “On the continent, and more espe- 
cially in Germany and Switzerland, the cherry 
is much used as a roadside tree ; particularly in 
the northern parts of Germany, where the apple 
and pear will not thrive. In some countries the 
road passes for many miles together through an 
avenue of cherry trees. In Moravia, the road 
from Brunn to Olmutz, passes through such an 
avenue, extending upwards of sixty miles in 
length; and in the autumn of 1828, we travelled 
for several days through almost one continuous 
avenue of cherry tre 33, from Strasburg by a cir- 
cuitous route to Munich. These avenues in 
Germany are planted by the desire of the respec- 
tive governments, not only for shading the tra- 
veller, but in order that the poor pedestrian may 
obtain refreshment on his journey. All persons 
are allowed to partake of the cherries, on condi- 
tion of not injuring the trees ; but the main crop 
of the cherries when ripe, is gathered by the re- 
spective proprietors of the land on which it grows; 
and when these are anxious to preserve the fruit 
of any particular tree, it is, as it were, tabooed ; 
that is, a wisp of straw is tied in a conspicuous 
part to one of the branches, as vines by the road- 
sides in Prance, when the grapes are ripe, are 
protected by sprinkling a plant here and there, 
with a mixture of lime and water, which marks 
the leaves with conspicuous white blotches. — 
Every one who has travelled on the continent, in 
the fruit season, must have observed the respect 
that is paid to these appropriating marks; and 
there is something highly gratifying in this, and 
in the humane feeling displayed by the pfinces 
of the different countries, in causing the trees to 
be planted. It would indeed be lamentable if 
kind treatment did not produce a corresponding 
return.” 
Strawberry and Milk Trade of New York, 
On a late occasion, as many as 20,555 baskets 
of Strawberries were, in one day, brought down 
the North River to New York. Then there is a 
special train run over the Erie Rail Road every 
night during the strawberry season, which brings 
to the city, each trip, from 30 to 40,000 baskets. 
The National Intelligencer and the Baltimore 
Clipper furnish us with these statements. 
Then as to Milk — On the Erie Rail Road, the 
New York Tribune says, the freight of milk 
alone for one week amounted to over one thou- 
sand dollars, more than 200,000 quarts having 
been brought over the ifeid in that time to New 
York. 
We are careful to give our authority for these 
statements, for they may look, to some persons, 
very much like Munchausen stories. 
Turpentine. 
We have not the information necessary to ena- 
ble us t» answer the inquiries in the following 
letter. We will be very much obliged to any one 
who will sen I us an article on the subject for 
publication in the Cultivator. 
We are inclined to believe that any one who 
intends to engage in the business would do well 
to go to North Carolina and spend a few months 
in the turpentine district. He may thus gain a 
very thorough knowledge of the whole matter— 
particularly of those minute details which are 
seldom mentioned by writers, but the knowledge 
of which is nevertheless essential to success in 
undertaking any new business. 
In the meantime, we have the pleasure to in- 
form our friends that Mr. Skinner, Editor of the 
Farmers' Library, who has lately been through 
the turpentine regian of North Carolina, promises 
that he will, in an early number of his work, give 
a full account or the whole process and its re- 
sults. For the present he only states, that one 
hand is capable of attending to a "crop" of so 
many "boxes;" and many of them collect from 
150 to 200 barrels of turpentine, worth, last 
autumn, upwards of $3 a barrel. It was said 
that one man, with his three hands, allowing 
them a small portion of the proceeds, had realised 
upwards of $4000. 
In relation to the future prospects of the tur- 
pentinebusinessin North Carolina, Mr. Skinner 
makes the following very curious statement: 
“ The reflections induced, in connection with 
the growth of this species of pine, are strange and 
important in a view of the distant future; as for 
instance : The wings of marine commerce of the 
whole world, it will be admitted, would be clipped 
if not entirely destroysd, but for the use of the 
product of this beautiful evergreen ; and yet from 
some mysterious operations of Nature, or the 
spread and influence of civilization of which com- 
merce is the great promoter, it would seem from 
present appearances, according to all I heard, 
that a stop has been put to the successions of its 
growth which has been going on for centuries. — 
The time is thus approaching, according to the 
opinionof judicious observers on the spot, when 
scarcely a vestige will remain of this valuable 
and majestic tree, where now it is so flourishing 
and abundant. Let me be understood. In the 
boyhood of men fifty years ago, it was a part of 
children’s play to bend down the young pine 
growth in the woods to ride upon. They were 
of that size, as common then, as the larger 
growth is now, and only of two, three, or four 
years’ growth, snd.abL.ut the size of a walking 
cane stripped of the bark, and about five, six, or 
seven feet high. That same generation is 
now as large as an Alderman’s leg; but here is 
the wonder ! There is none of that age or kind 
in preparation by Nature, as successoi's to the pre- 
sent stock in Carolina. It is rarely that one is to 
be found; and yet the seed (or mast as it is 
called,) is as abundant as ever, and vegetates as 
thickly as it ever did ; but it soon disappears. — 
After it is the size of wheat in November, little 
more ofit isever seen. The impression of those 
who have most closely noticed these facts per- 
sonally, is, that the present generation of pine 
will be the last that will be seen in North Carolina, 
perhaps forever." 
To the Editor of the CuUivaior ; 
Mr. James Camak; — Several of your sub- 
scribers in this neighborhood, are desirous of 
obtaining some information on the manufacture 
of turpentine — the manner of preparing it for 
market — the quantity that can be collected in 
one season by a hand — the expenses attending it 
— the average prices that it bears in the commer- 
cial cities — and any other facts connected there- 
with that can be procured. 
They have understood that making turpentine 
is at present a very lucrative business in North 
Carolina — far more so than the “raising” of our 
present staple commodity ; and they believe that 
