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IN-rwhmooil- lifahi.it v II. V.. *'V, i • i.-i i: i • 11, MO.A it*mi the latter part of April, 1*7*, om Of u linn of importer# caiut* Inr* fro.Mi lt;‘nliforiihi with .several thousand in.- of dilVcivnt v«rl«*twhich Uo j la111*'• I «»iii with iliv view **f working op a urge tru«lf IW the foreign persimmon, w nil mis a- Ills liMn.llt;iMuru*i. Tim m - ' nearly nil jrivw. and rmi--iderhn: Ik Intern lt;*f Ihe season Jill*!tli. ir lout* Joiirtny, did, I ili«*u|irlit» v* ry well. 1'lu* winter 17* 7i«, wasVI Vf -*'V* |V, 4l|l\V railing t*» til* tlt.-pl.ll•it eight or foil Im liis 011 unfmmi f-ll-.w-d by tho mercurygoing I • al'HHit I • I inflow stem, a Millaw* i * i in I •• i 1 | •* t * ’ 11 trees wore kill**!. The |I( iNlmmtill tali it* old la-t spring o *i only dead t*» ilio ground,but dry : tludor. I.u-t spring tlicy«p!«. k *1 from ilt»* i‘t■ *is and ninth* a growth from iavo In 11 vo Tool, were dot «' ili'ivat* d m nil, and ii'*w iir«‘ a* final u-1\vt» VK-.sTr. ago; not only dead. hut the lli* havi- a I the -ap dried «»itt and au* like dry -tick*. This winter fill.', been n rv opt it, though o|jc cold -Iiap iihout ri,n-mi:i- itt•.lt;•#*!111«11Kill by a very cold northwest wind sent lie mercury mi IS Inflow zero Tli* party'»n whoso land tlmy art*growing, -I»v- lit- n«tlo«d that theheavy l'roht.-ln the fall killed the ends of III* limits. 1 would nU ■date llinl native seedling persimmon* iliut I ha v* growing. have hi-t-n hudl.v lop-kilted hot It or lIlOHf hist two W filters, though the persimmon i- n native oflhi- country.('ho JafKiiw-Sf p- rdllimoii will do wv l iiere. W«- huvt seen themnrotiud ‘ ’rystnl springs while they Jut tv been frhitid m Ntitvlte/..Mr. Sanm.-K *»f'Minton. Kentucky, \v),i«-o . soolh-nt catalogue we have jii-i r* lt;«j vod, lius over 1J dlth rolit varieties of tho frillr. There Is jnsi as much dlll’eroticc in the vnr'teth- n* exist* in other fruit trees Our native pvrdiiimou- irfuw to l»e large forest trees lo r* , ntiti nr** never touched by iw»M,
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Jackson, Mississippi, US

Sat, May 15, 1880

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