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VOL. XISI, KO. S3 0 1855. 
CLOSE OE THE VOLUME. 
The present number closes our Thirteenth volume and 
the year 1855. We have several new and important 
features to introduce into our next volume, and hope 
to have the support and co-operation of all our pre- 
sent subscribers and a great number of new ones. Read 
the Circular on first page, of present number, and see 
how large a list of names you can forward us before the 
first of January, 1856. All the promised premiums will 
be most cheerfully and pi'omptly awarded. 
EEKEW YOUE SUBSCRIPTIOHS ! 
We may be pardoned for suggesting to all our readers 
the necessity of promptly renewing their subscriptions for 
the next volume (1856) at the earliest convenient day ; so 
that we may arrange our new subscription books properly 
Our terms are strictly $1 per annum in advance^ and. 
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dress W. S. Jones, 
Augusta, Ga. 
TO OUE VALUED CONTEIBUTORS. 
With the closing number of the Thirteenth Volume of 
the Cultivator, we return our unfeigned thanks to the 
faithful band of correspondents who have enriched our 
pages from month to month with the records of their ex- 
pea'ience and the suggestions of their minds. We hope 
all of them will continue with us, and that many new 
ones may be added to the list for the next volume. 
We earnestly request every subscriber or reader who 
thinks he can communicate anything of value to his breth- 
ren in planting, farming, horticulture, stock-raising or 
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general plantation economy, to make the columns of our 
journal his medium for that purpose. If we do not pub- 
lish all communications as soon as received, our friends 
are not to suppose that we deem them of no value. It is 
our aim to publish every worthy article as soon as pos- 
sible after it reception ; but our columns are so crowded, 
often, that months elapse after a communication reaches 
us before the proper opening presents itself 
We have still in our drawer for the next volume, many 
Articles of merit, which will be published as soon as pos- 
sible. 
GEORGIA CATAWBA V/IEE. 
On the 12th of November, a large party of gentlemen 
of this city and vicinity, met for the purpose of sampling 
some Native Wine made by Mr. Ch.^rles Axt, at his 
vineyards in Wilkes Co., Georgia. The Wine presented 
was the pure juice of the Cataw^ba Grape, only about eight 
W'eeks from the vintage, and of the quality known as 
“Still Catawba.” It was very fairly and impartially test- 
ed, side by side wdth several older brands, from some of 
the most noted Ohio vintners : and the best judges present 
unanimously pronounced it superior in aroma and purity 
of flavor to any native samples yet presented to their 
notice ; and predicted for it the highest degree of excel- 
lence, when it shall have attained the proper age. If it 
were necessary to give w^eight to this decision, we might 
mention the names of several of the gentlemen present, 
who are no less favorably known for their connoisseur- 
ship in wines, than for their sound judgment and capacity 
in all practical matters of business ; but we forbear, as the 
occasion was altogether informal and extempore. 
The enterprize of Grape growing and Wine making 
may now be considered most auspiciously inaugurated in 
Georgia and the South ; and it only remains for those who 
prefer the and udwlesome juice of the grape to the 
vilely adulterated mixtures of commerce, and wdio wish 
to aid in the successful development of a most important 
and promising enterprize, to give the matter their coun- 
tenance and support at the outset; and thus secure to the 
South, in a few years, an entirely new source of large in- 
come and profit. 
Mr. A. still contracts for the planting and culture of 
Vineyards and the making of Wine, and will visit any 
neighborhood where he can engage 12 acres or more. His 
address is Charles Axt, Crawfordville, Georgia. 
Late Peaches! — We had the pleasure of “sampling,” 
on the 30th of October, a very good and fair sized free- 
stone Peach, from the orchard of Mr. D. Redmond, near 
this city. From the appearance of the fruit, it might have 
been left on the tree at least a week longer without injury, 
and as Mr. R’s earliest Peaches ripen about the 15th of 
June, we can thus enjoy a succession of this delicious 
fruit for more than four months. The Peach alluded to 
differs from “Baldwin’s October” in being a w'eek or ten 
days later; and as it is undoubtedly a seedling, Mr. R. 
proposes naming it the November Free. — Augusta 
Chronicle, Nov. 4. 
