The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1879-08-29

ones, and in studying the habits of tho diff
ferent varieties, it furnishes just such hab
ITS OF thought as every man engaged il
agriculture should possess Tho farme,
who furnishes himself and all dependen,
upon him with good supply of fruit is O
good farmer. A good fruit grower cannot
be poor farmer. The first thing to be
done by the fruit grower is to select prop.
or spot of ground. A deep clay loan is the
best. A northern aspect also is desirable.
and the plat should be we'll drained. None
OF our fruit bearing plants can be, healthy
on ground that is not we'll drdincti y Ect
all the stumps be removed. IIt should be
deeply broken up and manured with muck
or stable manure, or the sweepmgs from
the yard. 1t cannot be made too rich.-
ihe peach Is no exception to this rule,
though the pear may be. Never select a
spot where the same kinds Of fruit have
grown befors Before the trec is planted
the plat should be enclosed by substantial
fence.
now come to the selection of the diff.
ierent varieties to be planted Reference
must be had to the use that is to be made
OF the fruit. l will not attempt even an
enumeration of varieties NV advice is TO
furnish some of the wel-known nurservmen
with full description of the plat of ground
and the objects you have in view, and let
them select the varieties for you. Don't
BUY from any Of the travelling statesmen.
who generally know nothing of fruit grow
ing. aud can furnish you with any kind de-
sired on short notice aud all properly lab.
cled.
when the trees are small, vegetables
and root crops may be sown between them.
but no grain should be planted there. Az
ter the trees begin to grow somewhat larger
the ground should be devoted entirely TO
the trees.
Strawberries should be cultivated even
by those who have only small garden plat.
and they can have at their command an
abundant supply of most delicious fruit.
Plums arc also a most valuable fruit. but
many of the finest varieties, being subject
to the attacks of the curcu!io, can bs sue.
cessiully cultivated in yards whose surface
is hard and which are trcquented, by poul.
try and hogs.
The aRRe Is Some staqpAara 81 |s aarfsiIss @ can be-
cultivated only in favored localities, while
others seem to flourish anywhere.
Pears are most delicious. The pomolo-
gist who will find out n cure for the blight
from which this tree suffers will Justly be
regarded as bencfactor of the human
race.
No fruit is more delicious during the
summer than the peach. The trees should
be properly pruned and trained, and when
this is done the trees will come into bear
ing sooner aud flourish better No country
affords better advantages for the culture Of
the peach than the Southern States.
All the cereals and fruits, except the
cherry and some few others, are successfully
grown here. Fruits arc raised and shipped
North, but that shipped is mostly Of rather
inferior varieties.
If the farmer makes it u rule to plant as
much corn and cotton on the land as he
did before the trees were placed there and
then lets the hogs and cattle be turned into
the orchard during the fall, has the ground
ploughed without refer ence to the roots of
the trees, he will soon be prepared to say
that the South is not adapted to fruit cul-
ture. There are other departments of fruit
growing that intended to take up, but /
have already occupied my allotted time.
The mulberry is very valuable tree,
especially where there are boys to be
raised.
The subject being then opened for gen.
eral discussion, the question was asked by
member whether blight affected peach
trees, and if SO, what is the remedy
Mr.. johnson replied there were two
kinds Of blight-one was the work of an
insect, and this sometimes affected the
peach, but he believed the tree was not al
iectcd with the genuine fire blight.
Mr. ID. u. Duncan then read an essay on
the cultivation Of grasses.
SYNOPSIS OF MIR. DUNCAN's ESSAY.
1t seems to one who is reading Ramsay s
History Of South Carolina that the first
question to occur is, What is the necessity
Of cultivating grasses in land like this
Bat when we contemplate the present con-
diton of this State, with its forests cut
down, its streams depleted of fish and its
surface covered with gullies, it seems that
that history must be a romance. The all
absorbing question to the wide. awake farm
or is how to recuperate the worn>out lands
and cothc these gullies? The answer is
by covering them with our own green crop.