
          and during the spring and summer are watered profusely
when it does not rain, every day; these throw out no stolons scarcely
but all their energies are spent in producing fruit, fruit all the
time. The philosophy of the thing, I confess I do not yet clearly understand.
Yet, there seems to be some facts in other departments of fruit
culture somewhat analogous to it. Mr. Iverson is making experiments
with the "Ceratachloa" to test its adaptation to our climate
and its suitability for grazing and for fodder. A lot of good grasses is
a great consideration with our farmers, as the long, hot and oftimes
dry summers here prevent our succeeding with any of the grasses
that grow further north. For the past one or two seasons I have been
studying our native grasses with direct reference to the matter, hoping
that I might be able to suggest something that might be of use. I make
little progress however, as all my energies are required to be exerted in [pane lucrando?] and Botany being profitless in that respect has to
be taken up as a mere relaxation from business of when I have nothing profitable to do. The "Paaspalum distychium." Ell, is well adapted
for grazing, covering the [added: ground] thickly and [added: being] greedily eaten by cattle, but, it
affects low, damp situations and probably would not bear droughth [drought]
or grow in dry doil. The natural [crossed out: ?] "Digitoria dactylon [added: Ell]," is better
adapted to grazing than any grass whatever, droughth [drought] suits it, but
alas! when once it gets hold you can never get rid of it. By the by
can you tell me its native country? it is scattered over Georgia, and
first spread from Savannah, we call it Bermuda grass under
the impression I presume that it was originally brought from the
Bermudas. My curiosity has often been excited by the Passiflora incarnata,
is that really a native of N. America? I have been through the
states where it fros from Virginia to Alabama and have never seen
it growing but in cultivated lands. After land has been cleared and cultivated
two or three years it first makes its appearance, and grows thicker
and thicker the more the land is exhausted indeed it becomes the 
        