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reward the orcliardist for liis trouble in this
neighborhood, and accordingly recommend es
pecially the May, Early Harvest, Red Astrachan,
Striped June, Red June, and any other sorts thq*
promise well. Nor would the committee dis
courage the raising of apples ripening all through
the season, including the very late sorts. Some
admirable specimens of apples may be found
here ripening all through the fruit season, em
bracing some six months of the year, in our
first class orchards. *****
Apples should be propagated by grafting, on
good seeding stocks, in January and February.
The seed should be kept moist during the win
ter, but not allowed to freeze, and sown in drills
early in the spring, like cotton. *****
Another fruit of great excellence is the Pear.
Indeed, but for the difficulties attending its pro
duction, it might rank all other fruit with us.—
But it requires from ten to twenty years to get
standard pear trees into full bearing, and after
waiting patiently for nearly a life time to get re
turns for the labor bestowed on standard pear
trees, the blight, which seems to be especially
fatal to it, may at last deprive ns of any fruit.
By grafting pears on the quince, or dwarfing
them as it is termed, we get fruit in from three
to five years—in small quantities, it is true, but
the quality of the fruit is better; and by setting
the dwarf trees in squares of eight feet, the
number of trees may be multiplied, so as to get
as much fruit perhaps from a given space, as
could be grown on standards.
By cutting quince sprouts, or young vigorous
branches of the current year’s growth, earl}' in
the winter, in slips twelve to fifteen inches long,
and setting them perpendicularly in the trench
es, some six or eight inches deep, the rows being
two to three feet wide, and the cuttings afoot
apart in the drill, any number of stocks .may be
raised for grafting pears every season; and by
remembering to continue this pibcess every
year, a succession of dwarf pear trees will be
produced, and may be put out yearly, in such
quantities as to defy the blight, and secure an
abundant supply of this admirable and most
popular of all fruits. Some few standards ought
to be grown, grafted on native seedlings, and
no pains should be spared to produce this valua
ble fruit, which grows here in great perfection,
if the trees can only be preserved.
Figs in great perfection and in large quantities
can be produced here, with but little trouble or
SOUTHERN CULTIVATOR
expense. All of the loading varieties may be
obtained in this neighborhood, and propagated
from sprouts rapidly. Once set out properly,
enriched and trimmed fora few years, the trou
ble is ended, and figs will be produced from the
trees for generations. One crop every year is
certain, and some varieties will produce two—es
pecially after the tree becomes large. Besides
the luxury and pleasure which this delightful
fruit affords in its season, it might become a
source of large profit, if produced abundantly,
and dried or preserved in sugar, and properly
prepared for market.
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Respectfully submitted,
B. I). TOWNSEND, Clin.
SAM’L W. EVANS.
Society Hill, S. C., Sept, lltli, 1803.
THE SCI PPERXOXG GRAPE.
It commences to bear the third year, and will
bear as much fruit the third year as the Concord
or any other vine. It is capable of producing 2,
000 gallons of wine to the acre. We offer to
prove that the must from this grape, properly
cultivated, w ill weigh, on Oeschle’s scale, 98 deg.
of sttgar. We have the official statement of Dr.
AntiSeJl, Department Chemist of Washington
City, ||iat the wine capacity is equal to any na
tive grape, lowing from ten to fourteen per cent,
of alcohol. We have wine in our cellar w hich
we have recently compared with Johannisher
ger, for which we paid $8 per gallon in New'
1 ork, and w T e think Mr. F. cannot decide which
is which. AY e have five acres in grapes from
which w r e made last season 6,000 gallons of wine,
and we have one acre for which w'c would not
take $2,000 to-day. We use no wdiiskey nor any
form of alcohol in our wine, and we are making
sparkling wine, white and red, which w'c arc
willing to have tested w r ith any native brands of
wine. We know vines in this State which we
have borne crops for sixiy-five years without a
failure. It has no disease. It blooms after all
danger from frosts, has passed. The YY r alter
Raleigh vine, on Roanoke Island, which was
three inches in diameter in 1610, now covers an
acre, and last year produced $ 3,000 worth of
wine. One vine in Tyrrel Cos., N. C., last year
produced 2,530 gallons of wine. It is a natural
sparkler, and admirably adapted for sparkling
wine. These facts w'e are prepared to establish*,
and could say much more for the grapej if wo
could bo heard.—C. W. Garrett & Cos., lUdxje
wood, If. C. — Rtchange.
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