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quince I never saw finer; several varieties of the 
plum do well, and do not fail in one year out of 
fifteen. The fine plums, cherries, and apricots, 
have not been tested sufficiently to say anything 
for or against them. Of the latter I know some 
few gentlemen who say there is no difficulty at 
all. The grape will unquestionably succeed ad¬ 
mirably. Think of sticking a cutting twelve 
inches long into the ground, and no more prepara¬ 
tion ; and yet many cut grapes from such culture. 
The fig—go south of us for the best, but not north 
of us for better. 
The cultivation of fruits has as yet in reality 
received no such attention as you northern folks 
describe. We dig a hole some fifteen to eighteen 
inches square, about a foot deep, make the roots 
adapt themselves to this size, plant sometimes deep 
and sometimes shallow, owing to ease of digging 
the hole, and let it grow or not! This is truly 
about the amount of labor in planting our fruit 
trees. There are exceptions, I know, but this is 
the plan. We then plant corn, or cotton, or grain’ 
as it happens to suit, and grow our fruits. Is it 
any wonder that we have not the rich, luscious 
fruit of the north ? 
But we had better stop here, for I have said 
epough at this time, which I trust most earnestly, 
will induce some reader of yours to try the culti¬ 
vation of choice fruits in a correct manner, and I 
do this with the firm belief that he will succeed, 
and if influenced to do so by this article, that he 
will feel thankful to the columns of the American 
Agriculturist for this advice. 
M. W. Philips. 
Edwards' Depot, Miss ., Oct. 1, 1844. 
N. B. We had frost here on the mornings of the 
29th and 30th September. I have never known it 
so early before. Judge Noland, who has been 
here some thirty years, says it is the first frost in 
September he ever saw. The frost was plain, 
when the sun was an hour high. 
DURHAM BULL METEOR.— Fig. 67. 
The Property of George Vail, Esq., Troy, N. Y. 
In presenting the above portrait to our readers, 
we regret to say, that the artist has greatly mis¬ 
represented this fine animal, in giving him a dew¬ 
lap, as he is particularly clean in this point. Nor 
is justice done to him at all in the brisket, he 
being very full, wide, and deep there. He has also 
become much thicker and heavier now than when 
this sketch was made, being then but 2 years and 
5 months old. 
Meteor was got by the Duke of Wellington, 
out of Duchess, both of which were bred by 
Thomas Bates, Esq., of England, and imported by 
Mr. Vail in 1840. He was dropped, if we recol¬ 
lect right, in July, 1841, and is of a pure white 
