SOTITHEKN CULTIVATOR. 
SOUTHERN SEEDLING APPLES— No. 6. 
THE “ QUEEN.” 
J. * 1 name This apple is much superior to the Other, which is a sum» 
Them are t^aro d.ss.nct „,e quSty. and one of the most beautiful. It evidently be- 
mer apple whtlst the aaove la a pleasure in recommending it to the favor of the public, as 
longs to the J^ore coniX Tform, and inferior to the above :] a beaud- 
worthy of general cultivate . stem three-quarters of an inch long; color, a fine golden yellow. 
“orabi;r;:dTe'e;:"“ k^.^l1lfm l large.’ Exhibited by Z, R. Jones. Esq., of BeKalb county, ^Ga,^and said 
to have been introduced from Western Virginia. 
Clarksville, Ga. t 
SOTJTHERN VS. NOSTHESN FRTJIT— LETTER FROM 
MR. VAN BTJREN. 
Messrs. Editors;— In an article over the signature of 
*‘C. D.,” in your January number, an opinion is expressed, 
that the senior editor and ourself are ‘^both right and both 
wrong, in some points,” relative to the merits of Southern 
and Northern fruits. 
We wish we could say the same of him. As to the quan- 
tity per acre that can be raised at the South, time alone 
can determine; as most of our orchards are at this time too 
young to afford such a yield as would give a reliable indi- 
cafon of what it will be when the trees arrive at more 
XMi'ure age. 
He says, "New York State, as a whole, can beat Ueorgia 
for apples,’ in quantity, (per acre,) in quality, and long- 
keepino-.” And as an evidence of the latter assertion 
being a fiict, says that "those raised in the Northern por- 
tion of the State keep longer than those raised in the 
Southern portion.” Why 1 We say, because they prob- 
ably originated in the Northern region, or the trees were 
raised there. This is our doctrine precisely. Were they 
removed still farther South, they would keep a shorter 
time than they now do, showing entire unfitness for 
Southern cultivation. 
\^ain ■ He says he can easily believe "that peaches and 
ineyns are much better here than in New York, because 
they require the hot sun to sweeten them ; and it is possi- 
ble that early Southern apples may be; but cannot think 
winter apples are, because, with us fJie sun xs too hot, an^ 
they riperu rather ‘prematurely.^' 
Mirabile dicin'. How do you know the sun is too hot, 
and that they ripen prematurely '? You have hotter days 
in New York than we do in Georgia, but not as many of 
them. Yet you appear to have a suspicion that our early 
apples may be as good, or perhaps better than yours. 
Don't they ripen in our hottest months, say June, July, 
and August I There is no doubt but they are better, and 
from the fact of getting more heat and sunshine than yours. 
How stands the question about late ripening varieties 'I 
Your Newtown Pippin, Spitzenberg, Baldwin, &c., riperi 
from the middle of September to the middle of October, 
when the frost usually cuts down vegetation. Our Nick- 
njack, Cullasaga, Berry, Buff, Limbertwig, and W'all, 
with a dozen or more others, ripen when I Fiom the 
middle of October to the last of November ! 
This is doubtless a startling fact you had never before 
heard of. When the valley of the ^loliawk and Hudson 
are wrapped in snow a foot deep, apples are just ripening 
in Georgia. It is an indisputable fact— apples will grow 
in Georgia, and good ones too; and that in spite of 
Northern opinions. 
"C. D.” further says, if they could grow here as they 
do in New York, until frost begins to appear, they might 
equal theirs. For IMr. D.’s especial information, we will 
now say, they always do. And for further information, 
will say, that all the winter varieties that have originated 
to the South of us ripen at a still later period. 
There is another iact connected with fruit culture at the 
South, which has never been brought to public notice, 
I -hat 1 am aware of, which is, many varieties have a pro- 
pensity to produce two crops in a season. The Carolina 
