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THE CULTIVATOR. 
Jan, 
and rather deep cavity. Calyx much like that of the 
White Doyenne, small, closed, set in a smooth, regu¬ 
lar basin, which is only moderately depressed. The 
flesh is in consistency and taste between that of the 
White Doyenne and Brown Beurre, buttery, melting, 
juicy, with a brisk, rich, slightly sub-acid and excel¬ 
lent flavor. Core small. Seeds few.” 
Its season of ripening may be said to be November 
and first of December; but Mr. Allen thinks by at¬ 
tention to early and late picking and proper ri¬ 
pening, 11 it may be eaten in perfection from the mid¬ 
dle of October to middle of January.” 
Fruit in Georgia and Mississippi. 
M. W. Philips, of Mississippi, states in the South¬ 
ern Cultivator, that he was formerly ridiculed for pro¬ 
posing the market culture of fruit; but in four years 
from that date, one man sold over $2,000 worth of 
fruit from a few acres—that he has himself sold peach¬ 
es at 75 cents per dozen, and $11 worth from a tree 
four years of age. He says he can take ripe to mar¬ 
ket, by the first of July, peaches of the Early York, 
George IV, and Red Rareripe; and so on successively, 
by different varieties, to the middle of October. 
Greene B. Haywood, of Casulon, Georgia, in the 
same paper, says that fine pears have been produced 
at Athens, in that State. The apples found best 
adapted to that climate, have mostly originated in 
that State; among the good winter apples, proved 
there, he describes the Village Burr, Virginia Green, 
(keeping till summer,) Cheese Apple, Iron Black Ap¬ 
ple, and Oconee Greening. A variety called June Ap¬ 
ple, ripening in July, contrary to the general charac¬ 
teristic, does not ripen earlier by being moved south. 
The trees must be allowed to branch low, as the hot 
sun has already injured such of his young trees on the 
trunk, as were trimmed high. 
Another correspondent in central Georgia, says that 
the pear, but for the blight (which pervades the whole 
United States) flourishes better than the apple; that 
the quince thrives finely wherever planted; that plums, 
nectarines, and figs do well; but cherries, except the 
Morello, have not succeeded well. Northern winter 
apples ripen and drop during the latter part of sum¬ 
mer, and do not succeed so well as native fruits. 
CULTURE OF STRAWBERRIES. 
I discover in the magazine of Mr. Hovey, for No¬ 
vember, a laudatory notice of his Boston Pine, by Mr. 
Coit of Norwich, in which it is praised for its strong 
character as a bearer. In the backwoods, we should 
deem this a strange recommendation for a stami- 
nate, which we only use as an impregnator, and would 
prefer a plant making no runners, as one so vigorous 
would soon root all the pistillate plants out. From 
1500 to 2000 plants, he raised near a bushel of fruit; 
a strong evidence of its being staminate, and as we 
find it not producing perfect fruit on one-tenth of the 
blossoms in an average of years. 
From the same number of pistillates, properly im¬ 
pregnated and cultivated, we often raise from five to 
eight bushels. My neighbor Culbertson must do this, 
or he would not take 120 bushels to market in a day. 
It is strange that staminates should still have their 
advocates, as valuable for cultivation for their fruit. 
In some years some staminates bear five times as much 
as in others, where no increase is found in the pistil- 
ates, as every blossom will bear a perfect fruit if im¬ 
pregnated, and not killed by a late frost, or the plants 
too much crowded to admit of impregnation, which is 
often the case. Writers should not undertake to speak 
of the bearing of a plant, from the crop of a single 
year. Why is it that your nurserymen still advertise 
large fruited, perfect blossomed staminates, that bear 
a full crop of perfect fruit? Our nurserymen never 
do this, but to all pistillates add eight or ten stami- 
nates to the hundred, and in separate parcels. A Hor¬ 
ticulturist. Newport, Ky., Nov. 24 th, 1847. 
RAISING QUINCES. 
A correspondent of the Horticulturist, who raises 
this fruit of extraordinary excellence, pursues the fol¬ 
lowing course:—-He selects good, deep, dry, rich soil j 
which is deepened by a thorough use of the subsoil 
plow, and manure applied copiously and deeply, by 
dropping it in the bottom of each furrow as the plow¬ 
ing proceeds. Large and deep holes are dug for the 
trees; each receives half a barrel of good compost f 
the branches are shortened one half, before setting j 
and the soil well settled among the roots by drenching 
with water, before the hole is quite filled. All fruit 
trees, by the way, should receive this good treatment. 
He does not lose one tree in a hundred, by this excel¬ 
lent practice. 
The pruning is given in autumn, and consists of 
cutting out, as sparingly as possible, and only old, 
crooked, crowded, and decayed branches. Every au¬ 
tumn, manure is spread round each tree, and after a 
light plowing in spring, salt is spread broadcast at the 
rate of ten bushels per acre. The salt is regarded of 
very great consequence, but it must be applied in con¬ 
nexion with free manuring every year. The groundis 
kept mellow and clean by constant cultivation, pota¬ 
toes, sugar beets, &c., being found well adapted to the 
purpose. The principal secret of success, it will thus 
be perceived, consists in cultivating and doing every¬ 
thing in the best manner; while others, who do not 
succeed, do not cultivate their trees at all. 
The writer states that a good crop of quinces may 
be obtained three years after transplanting, and the 
trees will continue in a productive state thirty years. 
Varieties of Fruit, and Soils of their Origin. 
There are some varieties of fruit which appear to b© 
equally good in all places, and in all kinds of soil. 
Others, in some localities are fine, and in others nearly 
worthless. It becomes an interesting subject of in¬ 
quiry in such cases—What was the soil where such 
varieties originated, and are not similar soils best 
adapted to their perfection? Very little attention ap¬ 
pears to have been given to this subject, and we are 
in possession of but few facts in proof. 
We have noticed the present year that the Imperial 
Gage, which appears to have originated on the sandy 
soil of Long Island, has in all cases been fine when 
grown on sand or sandy loam; but on heavy clays it 
has been nearly worthless.* The same result has been 
observed in relation to the Bloodgood pear, which ap¬ 
pears to have had a similar origin. On sandy loam it 
was excellent; on clay it was far inferior to the Skin¬ 
less. The latter pear is invariably fine on heavy soils, 
but not always so on those of a lighter character— 
what was its origin? The White Imperial peach, 
which first grew on the clayey soils near Aurora, in 
Cayuga county, N. Y., proves to be on such soils of 
the highest quality; but, though always fine, it appears 
not always to sustain the full perfection of its charac¬ 
ter on sandy loam. 
The subject appears to be worthy of further inquiry, 
and if the supposition is correct, lists of varieties, 
adapted to soils of different qualities, would be valua¬ 
ble to those planting orohards and gardens. 
* A friend informs us that the finest flavored Imperial Gage plums 
he ever tasted, grew at Troy, the soil sandy loam. 
