True Democrat. (Paulding, Miss.) 1845-18??, 1846-07-22
AGRTO ULTURAL.
CULTIVATION OF FRUIT AT THE
SOIITH


Since wrote last, l have received the
March number Of the Farmer, containing
theengraving of Gray's railway horse pow
er, manufactured by MeSsrs. K. Sinclair
g. Co., of your city, which, in my humble
judgment, is, for our purposes of ginning
cotton and grinding corn, requiring more
power and less velocity, decidedly the best
have yet seen.
have just received large lot OF all
kinds of fruit trees from Paris, which to
nv surprise came out after n voyage OF
nearly go days, in better order, and are
doing apparently much better than apple,
peach, and pear trees received early Ill the
winter from on honest nurseryman on
Long Island. believe the experience OF
our Seaboard generally is in favor of Euro
pean trees over Northern. The most pro-
ductive apple trees that l have, are upon
the Doucin of half standard stock, and next
upon the Paradise or dwarf The trees
have are mostly from Italy, and have sue
ceeded we'll thus far; that is, they have
borne well and the fruit has been as fine as
any / have ever eaten in this country and
very superior to anything have eaten in
Europe. Apple and pear trees have, how
ever been found not to succeed upon their
own roots, i. e., upon apple (Standardl and
pear roots, in the sandy soils Of our Sea
islands, being disposed to grow too vigo
rouSly and bear little, and sometime not
even blossom.
An old and experienced planter and
garden in my neighborhood whips or beats
his pear trees with rods, or poles, or COW.
skins, when they do not bear, and has sue
ceeded in making them yield fruit by this
treatment. l have also several hundred
olive trees, recently from Florence, most
ofwhich are just coming into bearing, and
promise most abundanty this year, al
though many of them bore last summer.
believe that in our country an unrea-
Sonable prejudice exists against budding or
grating the peach upon the ounce. Most
amateurs in Europe prefer such trees, be-
cause they come into bearing much sooner,
frequently produce larger and finer favored
fruit, occupy much less room, admitting
thereby of much greater variety of fruit
in small garden, requiring 10 be only
about ten feet apart, and will frequently
flourish in soils unfavorable to trees upon
pear roots. have succeeded in making
very dwarfiSh pear teers, one now bearing,
not more than two and half or three feet
high, by budding fruit spurs Into ounce
stocks quite near the ground. | rather
prefer budding buds that lave started, or
spurs, or even limbs sometimes as long as
eight inches, TO dormant buds or eyes. In
roses seldom Use other than started buds
or short limbs when have choice.
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DELICIOUS APPLE PUDDING. II is conve-
nient as il may be made several hours before it
is baked, or when a nice addition is wanted
Unexpectedly Pare and chop half dozen,
or more, according TO their size, of the best
cooking apples; grease pudding dish, cover
the bottom and sides half an inch thick with
grated bread, and very small Jumps of butter
then put layer Of apples with sugar and nut
meg, and repeat the layers until the dish is
heaped full Before adding the last layer,
which must be Of bread and butter, pour over
the whole teacup full Of cold water. Put il
into the oven as soon as the dinner is served,
and bake it for twenty-five or thirty minutes
1t may be baked the day before II is wanted
when il must be heated thoroughly, turned in.
to a shallow dish and sprinIled with powdered
sugar. II requires no sauce.
PLowIN0 NEAR THE SALERNo-The
fields being without fences, have an open
look and the mingling Of men and women
together in their cultivation, gives them che
quered appearance, and renders them very pic
turesque In the middle of a large green
wheat field was group Of men and women
wedding the grain the red pelticoais and blue
spenceIs Of the latter contrasting beautifully
with the color Of the fields Ia one plot Of
ground | saw team and mode Of blowing
quite novel, yet withal very simple. The
earth was soft, as il already broken up, and
needed only litle melowing to efiec; this,
a man had harnessed his wife to plow, which
she dragged to and fro with al the patienee Of
an OK, be in the meantime holding il behind
as If he had been accustomed TO drive, and she
10 60. She, with a strap around her breast,
leaning gently forward, and be bowed over The
plow behind, presented a most curious picture
n the middle Of field. The plow here is a
simple instrument, having but one handle, and
no share, but in lis place a pointed piece Of
wood, sometimes shod with iron projecting
forward like spear; and which merely passed
through the ground, like . sharp pointed stick,
without turning a smooth furTow like our
oWn.-Lcffers from Italy.
EFFECTS OF CROssIN0 on THE CoSsTITu-
Ton Those classes Of the human race which
preserve their blood free from mixture with
Strangers, while they have less varidy m their