The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1877-09-13

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successful and permanent, we should
have horticultural society in the State
with subordinate ones in the counties
It is only by the means of meeting to-
gether and exhibiting fruit and discussing
| its merits in the different sections of tht
State that we can be able to adopt q
proper nomenclature and proper list o.
fruit for each section. This is essential
and it involves knowledge of the adapt
ability of the various fruits that grow il
our State, not only to the different sec
tions strictly, but also to locations and Il
particular local influences of EACH
There is no better guide to the beginner
in selecting varieties than the pub
lished lists carefully prepared by the
American Pathological Society and the
Georgia Horticultural Society. The
Georgia Horticultural Society recon-
mend the following fruits for the noun.
tain region of Georgia, corresponding
very nearly in latitude, soil and climate
to the mountain region of South Caro-
lima:
.Appzes.-Red Astracan, Buff, Carter's
Blue, Carolina Watson, Cullasaga, Chat.
tahoochee, Camak Sweet, Disharoon,
Early Harvest, Early Red Margaret,
Eluinetelee. Etawah, Farrar's Summer
Glines Golden Pippin, Horse, Hocket's
Sweet, Horn, Hoover, Julian, Kittageskee
Kentucky Red Streak, Mangum, Never
Fails, Nickajak, Romantic, Shockley.
Steyenson's Winter, Webb's Winter,
White Winter Parnin, Yates.
Peaches. Austin's Bustion's
Oct, Baldwin's Late, Chinese, Craw.
ford's Early, Crawford's Late, Darley,
Early Tillotson, Early Newington, Ea.
toms Golden, George, Heath White,
Lemon Cling, Mountain Rose, Old Nixon
Freestone, Old Nixon Clingstone,
Piquet's, President Church, Rivers,
Pucel!e de Malines, Stump the World,
Susquehannah, Thurber, Tuskena.
Rsars.-Bartlett, Belle Lucrative,
Beurre fApjou, Beurre Easter, Beurre
Gifart, Beurre Superfne, Duchesse d An.
gouleme, Howell, Josephine de Mar
lines, Onandaga, st. Michael's Archan.
gel, Winter Nelis.
Raspberries.-Imperial Cane.
CHemies.-Belle Magnifque, Black
Heart, (Werder's, Early Richmond, May
Duke, Bauman's May.
Grepes.-Delaware, Concord, Goethe,
Ives, Norton's Virginia, Perkins Soup.
pernong, Merimack. Best for market
Ives, Delaware Hartford, Wilder, Diana,
Perkins. Best for wine-Jacques, Lenoir,
Clinton, Concord, Ives, Norton's Vir-
ginia.
Plums for all Sections mot destroyed by
Chrcuio. DE Caraduec, Wild Goose,
Newman's.
Strawberries for all Sctions-Wilson'a
Albany.
BEST FOR THE MIDDLE REGION.
Appzss.-Red Astracan, Buncombe,
Black Warrior, Carolina Greening, Chat
tahoochee, Early Harvest, Early Red
Margaret, Equinetelee, Etawah, Farrar's
Summer, Gravenstein, Hames' Seeding,
Homony, Horse, Hockett's Sweet, Kitta-
geskee, Mamma, Mangum, Maverick
Sweet, Moultrie, Never Fails, Red June,
Rhodes Orange, Schockley, Summer
Cheese, Summer Queen, Steyenson's
Winter, Sweet Bough, Taunton, Yates,
Yopp's Favorite.
Peaches. hep.-Alexander, Amsden, Amelia,
Austin, Barnard, Baldwin's Late, Chinese,
Crawford's Early, Darby, Early Tillotson,
Early York, Eaton's Golden, Fleitas St.
John, Foster, Crosse Mignon, Great
Eastern, Hale's Heath White, Indian
Blood Freestone, Indian Blood Cling
stone, Late Rareripe Stephens, Lemon
Cling, Mountain Rose, Old Nixon Free
stone, Old Nixon Clingstone, President,
President Church, Princess of Wales,
Rivers, Pecelle de Malines, Susquehan-
nah, Tuskena.
Psars.-Bartlett, Belle Lucrative,
Benrre d'Anjou, Beurre Diel, Beurre
Giffart, Beurre Superfne, Clapp's Favor
ite, Doyenne d'Ete, Duchess, Howell,
Lawrence, st. Michael Archangel, Seckle,
Leconte.
StraDbcyrics.--Longworth's Prolific,
Seth Boyden, Wilson's Albany.
Raspberries.-Imperial Red Cane.
MISUNDERSTANDING Hicks fol
poultry.l
Grapes.-Devereux, Clinton, Concord,
Delaware, Diana, Goethe, Hartford, Ives,
Norton's Virginia, Scuppernong, Merri-
mack.
Egs.-Early Lemon, Celestial, Brown
Turkey, Green Ischia.
Cterries.-Gov. Wood.
BEST FOR COAST REGION.
Apples.-Red Astracan, Early. Harvest
Early Red Margaret, Etowah, Family,
Nantahalee, Red June.
Cherries are worthless in this region.
Peaches.-Alexander, Amsden, Amelia
! Hale's Early, Mountain Rose, Old Nixon
Clingstone, Rivers.
Mul6erries.-Dowping's Hicks (pro.
liic.)
Psars.-Bartlett, Duchess, st. Michael
Archaugel, Leconte.
Ssrawberriss.-Wilson's Albany.
Fgs.-Brunswick, Black Genoa, Celes.
tial, Brown Turkey, Green Ischia, Lemon
Nerii.
Grapes.-Concord, Delaware, Flowers
Ives, 1enoir, Norton's Virginia, Scupper.
nong, Thomas, Warren.
Plant in November or December one
year old healthy trees. By no means
plant scions and stubs from the orchard
and fence corners they are short lived
unhealthy and are continually putting
up suckers. Plant the seed from well
ripened and healthy fruit, and bud OF
graft on this stock or buy your tree.
from q reliable nurseryman. Lay of
your land by cross burrows with a plow
fifteen to eighteen feet apart for standard
pears and peaches, and twenty feet apart
for apples. Dig the holes at the inter.
section of the burrows three feet wide
and fifteen inches deep; before setting
the tree put in the bottom some of the
top soil. Set the tree erect in the mid
die of the hole and fill up with the tor
soil, packing the dirt we'll around the
roots and leaving the tree buried abou
half an inch deeper than it grew in the