The native persimmons, as they sprang up in his fields, were grafted to a productive variety of native American persimmon, and in September when I saw them, the trees were bending down with unripe fruit. He had a large number of water oaks scattered about the place, and had been planting them systematically for years.
As an exhibit at the county fair he had printed slips numbering twenty-six crops[1] which were growing either wild or cultivated on his place. Some he said were of small value, but they were there.
He had three hundred acres of fenced pasture. One-quarter of it was swamp. Some was hopeless-looking sand which Mr. Lombard said was "hardly worth the hole it filled up in the
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- Mulberries (Downing), April 20th to July 20th (dates of use).
- Mulberries (Hix), April 26th to July 20th.
- Mulberries (White), May 4th to June 26th.
- Huckleberries (Frog Eye).
- Huckleberries (large high bush), June 1st to July 1st.
- Huckleberries or Blueherries, June 5th to July 5th.
- Huckleberries (hog or ground), June 10th to July 20th.
- Wild Cherries, June 10th to July 20th.
- Blackberries (highland), May 26th to June 30th.
- Blackberries (swamp), June 5th to July 10th.
- Hog plum, June 20th to August 20th.
- Gooseberries, July 1st to August 15th.
- Haws, August 15th to September 30th.
- Haws, August 25th to September 30th.
- Haws, August 15th to September 30th.
- Muscadines, September 1st to October 15th.
- Dogwood berries, September 15th to December 30th.
- Black gum berries, September 10th to December 30th.
- Acorn (water oak), September 15th to April 1st.
- Acorn (post oak), October 1st to April 1st.
- Persimmons, September 15th to December 30th.
- Hickory nuts, October 1st to April.
- Pecan nuts.
- Chestnuts.
- Chinquapin nuts.
- Hazelnuts.
in the South, and we know of only two trees near our city and these are across the river in South Carolina. One of these trees bears a full crop every year, while on the other one the fruit drops before maturity." (Letter, Fruidland Nurseries, successors to Berckman's, Augusta, Georgia, July 5, 1923.)
