Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1866-06-06

of peaches, to reach those markets from tht
Goth to the 25th of June, thus anticipating
the New Jersey crops from four to six weeks
The first peaches command as high as Sis K
500 per bushel, and an average Of, at least
IS NAV be reasonably expected, as the Aiker
fruit has an established reputation, excellet
by no other section, being healthy, we'll ha
vored and highly colored.
One of our peach growers, since the close
of the war, sent to his factor in New York
for various family supplies, stating that he
was without money and would have to de-
pend on the next peach crop. Much to hit
qualification the articles were Immediately
forwarded with an iutimation that no better
security was requisite than a promise of 6
consignment of an article so priced in New
York as were the aiken peaches.
Mr.. James Purvis states that be has sixty
acres in peaches, which requires three hands
to cultivate, and that he has made FIVE crops
in six years, realizing from $4,000 to $4,000
each.
Several of our orcharaists have realized
more than $500 per acre in favorable years
which far exceeds any other crop requiring as
little work.
The trees are usually planted about sixteen
feet apart, or from one hundred and fifty to
two hundred trees per acre, and commence
bearing the third year and producing from a
peck to two bushels. They are remarkably
healthy, the disease knownas {" the yellows"
not having made It's appearance, and the
fruit is more free of the curculia than III the
richer lands of the low country. The great
est evil we naye to contend with are the late
frosts, whicl sometimes occur in April, when
the fruit has Just formed, and occasions great
damage to the crop: BY aproper selection
of varieties supply of this and luscious
fruit may be had continuously from June to
November. Putting up peaches in cans
might be carried on to great advantage.
APPLES.
The impression that good apples could not
be produced at the South has generally pre-
vailed but gradually this error is being dis
PEELED. In the culture Of the apple, as o!
the peacb, Southern raised trees must be de-
pended on, and several of these varieties will
challenge comparison with any others, either
as regard: flavor, size or keeping qualities.
pEARs.
Although the pears exhibited at our horti-
cultural exhibitions are unsurpassed, the opin.
ion is common that il is rot 4 crop that will
par. Parties who have made the cultivation
Of this fruit speciality, and whose opinions
ere entitled to the greatest consideration, as
scrt the contrary.
Colonel Hebron, of Mississippi, reports his
trees as returning from Eve to eight hundred
dollars per acre, and Mr.. Bercklnans, who
has been engaged in this culture near htty
years, first in Belgium, then at P'ainhe!ds;
New Jersey, a few years since after careful
investigation, purchased place within TWEEN
ty miles of this town for the purpose of rails
ine pears, leeming the soil and climate better
adapted TO this culture than any other.
In an Essay read TO the Aiken Vine Grow
inp Association, Mr.L. Il. iislagsekuan: stated
that the more refined tiha fruit flower or TO
liago the more delicate will be the plant III
any climate and it is q generally acknow-
edged fact that the pear tree is more !astldi-
Gus and rxacting, less hardy, and requires
better management thau ether fruits. That
more trees are killed by The frost than b.
any other cause acting further South; and
that the blight, almost the only disease lDhe
rent to the pear tree, is not worse here than
elsewhere, whilst the ravages OF intense cold
winters are never Witnessed. That this eli
mate is preferable, is evidenced by three facts
he has closely observed for several years. ls.
Weak and worn varieties condemned at the
North arc in fine condition here. 81. Somc
European varieties fail az The North, yet
flourish here. 81. The size and quality are
both SUPERIOR and the foliage double size.
Finally, re was satisfied that pears must pay,
for they were luxury that commanded enor-
nous prices and reqarinG to be picked be-
fore they were fully ripe, would bear trans
portation better than other fruit.
FIGS.
Figs are one Of those great boons Of nature
that contribute 10 the erjoyments Of life in a
Southern climate. Luscious,- nutritious and
wholesome, they are frequently recommended
by physicians as @ food for inyalids, and as q
laxative where strong medicines are to be
avoided. They grow freely in the open ai-,
require little or no attention, and produce
two Or three crops annually.
10 sit under ones own vine and fig tree SO
expressive of happiness and conteutmcnt, can
be literally realized here.
Pomegranates (dccdeous boomers, dis.
playing ripe fruit and expanding blossoms at
the same time), cherries, ncctarines, ounces,
apricots, raspberries, SC, are cultivated to a
limited extent, and most excellent strawbcr-
rics arc to be had for four or FIVE months by
irrigating the plants
As attention to horticulture extends, in all
probability the naturalization and acclimation
of other valuable fruits, such Us the date
tamarind, olive, jujube, various nuts and ber-
ries, &C., will afford wider field for enterprize
GRAPES.
InaIettcr published in the Merchants Mag
azine, February, 1855, DR.. Goodrich, U. S
Consul at Lyons, states that the annual
amount of wine produced in France cxceedi
500 900 900 of gallons, and gives employment
to about two and half millions of persons
tho vineyards occupying 100000 acres, thu
price VARYING from 10 to 90 cents gallon
making an annual value Of over $500 ,OOO,
OO0 and that disease of o fungoid charac
ter has proved SO destructive and continue.
to increase so rapidly that fears are enter.
tanned that it may wholly destroy the vine.
AS the American vines have thus far beer
exempt from this disease supplies of oul
plants and cuttings have been forwarded Il
:. be there introduced. There all the vines be-
n Tlong to the same species, but on this CONT
ncnt thero are four species, of which ove
one hundred varieties ore cultivated. In ou
woods and swamps enormous vines are founC
extending to the s6pmost branches of th'
. forest trees, and were it not for the custom
of buroing the woods in the spring, they
would be even more numerous than they now
are. As tits, quite business is done in tn,
immediate vicinity, gathering the wild frui
for the distilories located here, as we'll as fo
making wfue. For an account Of American
grapes, see Patent Office Reports, 1857, al
article read by II. W. Rayenel before the 4
, Y. G. Association.
One of our oldest and most successful