The Delaware register, or, Farmers', manufacturers' & mechanics' advocate. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1828-1829, 1829-10-03

ed up on the river ST. Marks at the head of soop
vigaton There are ten twelve very good stores at
Magnolia, two at Monticello, the county town of JET
erson county, and, believe, three or four at Quincey
the county town of Gadsden county. In this and the
adjoining counties there five six mills, which
constantly saving plank and lumber for the use of
the settlers 1t sells at Is dollars per thousand feet
at the MILL
omitted saying something relative to the vine.-
Whoever comes to this country to cultivate the vine
will be sadly disappointed When they see the num-
Der and immense sze* of the vines running over the
trees and on the ground, they will naturally conclude
that the soil and climate well adapted to its growth
And so they are but the climate is such that the vines
seldom produce good crop, and the grapes are waite
ry and sour. They rpen in July and August at which
season the rains are generally abundant that the
juice of the grape must necessarily be watery and to-
tally unfit to make good wine. In addition to THIS the
vine blooms so early that the young fruit is very liable
to be blasted by the cold nights of March and April
| have seen wild grapes on five acres on hill
sde in Calvert county, Maryland, than have seen al
together in Florida for six years. have heard sug
gested that the bossoming of the vine might be retard
ed by rubbing off the flower buds This might answer
for garden grapes, but would probably be too tedious
business for vineyards on large scale. Gould the
blossomng be SO retarded to bring the rpening of
the grape to the month of October, part of the u
States would be more suitable for the cultivation OF the
vine. The mldness and dryness OF that month must
necessarily ripen the juices to perfection.
1 ! ought not to omit Indlgo which am inclined to
think will be cultivated in conjunction with sugar cane
to the exclusion of any other crop for market.
You will naturally suppose that we arenot without dis
advantages tocounterbalance numerous advantages
! We are remote from the market in which our produc-
tons are sold. We have land carriage OF from to
40 miles before we arrive at soop navigation OF to
8 feet water. The unfrequency of direct communion
ton with the large cities is disadvantage, which is
however, daily diminishing. We have 10 go 20 or
40 miles to get few OYSTERS or salt water fish.-
We have no back duck for SUPPER andathough
we have few red head maliard, and plenty OF wld-
| geons, we have no time TO shoot them. We have to
buy our -four, as there are no mills to manufacture
wheat into flour, even if raise it, 1t is difficult to
cure bacon. In addition to these we do not get the
speeches in Congress or from the armies on the
Danube, until twenty days after you know all about 1T
the new novels reach US until they become Old
and the ladies get the winter fashions summer, and
the summer ones in winter which is truly dreadful ass
strange to tell, the ladies earnest IN seeking af
ter fashions here as they in N. York, Philadelphia
| or Baltimore.
| There are also our musqueoes, agators and frogs.
Some Georgia wit has published that we have 40 bush
els of the last to the acre, and aligaors enough to
fence them in. He certainly never could have eaten
that greatest of delicaces rcaseed frogs or he would
have no objection to having more than we have. The
allgators do no harm except and then catching a
stray pig and as to mnsquetoes, Gadsden county has
never had any, and they rapidly disappearing from
almost every settlement.
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