The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1879-11-06

as is done by the truck farmers around
Charleston, or the plants should be put
out twelve inches apart I'm rows three or
three and one half feet wide, and. the
runners shoald be encouraged to occupy
the centre space betweeen the rows until
the crop is matneed aud gathered, and
then the plants, stEndigg ing tue centre
between the old rows should be barred
with plough on both sides, leaving the
plants standing in the middle Of the old
rows 70 be cultivated for the next crop,
end aetting out each year Is in that way
avoided, end at the same time the plants
each year are young and vigorous, and
on land we'll broken up during the year,
thereby securing large crops Of the best
The fine plums are SO spbjecs to the
attacks ofthe ourculio that ordinarily they
will not pay forthe trouble OF cultivation,
except where grown on hard or paved
Iiyards, to which poultry and pigs have
free access, but different kinds of the
Chickasaw, plnms should be produced in
| every orchard.
4 Different kinds of. 6gs should be grown
| in>every orchard or garden; the favor Of
the fruit Is exceedingly sweet and, 1tis-
cious, 30 much so that itis NOT often rel-
ished az first, but a love for it both iu its
green and dried state Is soon acquired,
and one advantage Is that II, bears several
crops during the year, aud il the frat
should be cut off by tho spring frosts an
other is soon taken on which is almost
always the best CROP '1ss fae
! The apple iS not only, the most extern
l'sively grown and most highly apprecia-
ted fruit in this country, but also in all
temperate climates, and its praises have
!gbeeq celebrated, first in fable next in
song, and now for the NUMEROUS uses to
which it 10 applied. Z ~ ~ q
1.-The yarities ncW. cultivated are entirely
| different and far superior to those which
were grown by our ancestors hundred
years ago, and mo doubt may yet be
greatly improvedj though no variety has
of late years been produced which equals
the Northern pippin in exquisite favor.
Many OF the fineet apples, can only be
successfully grown in small sections or
beits of country completely failing in
| all others, whiist loth ers' seem to be equal
y we'll adapted &c, various countries, as
the red Astracah, d native Of Russia, one
of our best simmer apples. W iiataA
Lime is essential TO the health and
long life of apple trees. Where It Is
wanting it should be literally supplied,
as it greatly improves the character of
| the fruit. Little trimming is required
beyond properly balancing the head of
the tree, the cutting out of dead wood
Fandi the cutting out of limbs where they
are TO mach crowded.
; Downing expresses the opinion that the
| apple tree is more perfectly naturalized
in America and succeeds better in the
Northern and Eastern portions of the
! -ln..e.! States thai: il: s;iJ ether part of
world. We cultivate the summer and
early fall apples of the Northern States
as successfully as they are grown there,
but their wintcr apples are all failures
as such here, and are not even good fall
apples We have many native sorts
which keep well, and are Of fair quality
but we doubt if our long, dry, hot sum-
mers will admit of winter apples of the
highest excellence being produced in
this State, except in the Piedmont
region. seAnd although the noun
tains sof1 North, md rSontlI Carolina
may produce no.apple equal to the New
ton pippin or, to the Northern spy, yet
the general character OF the winter ap-
pies OF the mountains is superior to that
| of any of those prodnced in any one of
the Northern States,r not Jniy in size,
beauty and quality, but also in the Pc
cnl!er. texture and snlidity af the fruit,
caused by the pfal and extended period
of their gFowth.sisf
In the cultivation of the pear tree
care should be taken TO svoid 100 rapid
or excessive growth, especially late in the
season, when the wood does not hayo
sufficient time to ripen. Apart from the
blight, which is. disease of modern
times, no doubt caused by the highly
improved condition of the wood as we'll
es of the ni. s!:e il; e, very
| few diseases, and treea have been fre.
quentiy known to live till they we're 900
or 400 years old, and bear enormous
crops. One tree in England, in 1905
covered more than one:half of an acre
Eof ground, and produced in sinEle
tyear 10 hogsheads or 945 gallons of per.
FRY. And there is 4 tres standing in Illi-
nois, which wss planted by Mr. Oc-
kletree, which in 1884 produced y IS4
bushels of fruit. There is no fruit
tree tho top of which yields SO read.
| lily to the use OF the knife, ana which
forms such beautiful pyrauiidal heads,
land no fruit has been 90 much improved
lwithin the last century by skilful cult.
vation. From the astFingent pear of the
hedge.row, it has become one of the
most delicious and highly priced OF all
Tour fruits, aud issa savorite in all gar.
dens wnero il is cultivated.
The cultivation of the pear, owing Ia
lis heaiihfulness, its long life, It's great
fruitfulness and the exquisite flavor 3ol
its fruit. would besrapidly extended in'al
parts OF the country were it not fol
the blight which Soma years makes sad
| havoc amongst the most beautiful trees
/ laden with crops of the most magnificent
fruit. What is pear blight? fs II
the work of insects Is It a fungu.
growth in or upon the wood Or i.
Fit the rupture ofthe wood vessels caused
by extremes OF heat or cold, or By the too
iirapid growth of the wood? Tie latte,
now seems to be the more common opih.
ion, rs those kinds which grow Blowis
and mature their wood early are less lia
Bile to It's Tayages, and the disease otter
makes its appearance, after sudden and
.av tsas,as chanena of AArnsaaraeiraa and
less frequently on northern than or
! soutlieln exposnreg. The pomoIogisl
who will detect the true character of tis
disease and will prescribe an efficien
Femedy9will indeed be n benefactor hil
race, and sill annually. add IsilhonB d
/ wealth to the nation.
There 10 no frdit more highly apprecia.
| ted during the summer than .tis Daaci
or one that contributes so mich 4
] healthiulness. or il n...sa ;,SS;S;ss:SsbIy
grown. The proper culture requires that
from one-half TO two.thirds of the wood
| groEn during the past year should bt
cut back, just before The buds com
mencs swelling /; In that tgAy the vigor oi
every part Of the frse may be preserved
Thers gwili be mo- dying out Of tfit