Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1838-10-25

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plants. of one years growth) Invested o
all the side branches, have been sold re-.
gularly and readily at $25 per hundred
sna tue twigs, trimmed off, at SD per
hundred buds-and single plant will
sometimes produce hundred such buds,
An acre OF rich land will bri ng more
tnan III O00 plants aud the crop is com.
pieted aud ready for market iu one sea
son. ny cutting of the whole tops. at
the ground, Use as to take away everv
oud' each root will, in the second sum-
mer, produce three of fou. times as ma.
ny buds as in the first years growth. to
De again cut off and sold. Were there
ever greater profits offered1 Aud il il
not perfectly natural and reasonable that
these profits should be preferred TO those
offered by silk culture proper. even
though doubled by Legislative bounties,"
| But the Register by no means discourapes
| 'he raising OF silk, or of the Mulberry. I,
says we fully believe in the suitableness
~ 'he slave holding States for both /; and we
are Conndent that lair trials W i'll show very
prnhtable results. And il the doubt and
disoeiief just expressed, are indeed unfound
ed and unsounc, and New England is. in
ruin, well adapted for silk culture. then. a
lyort'ors, so much the more profitable must
~ oe IN virginia, because ofour warmer and
io"ee' summers We have also other ad.
vantages (Which we have several times be.
lore urged) in our far cheaper land. and
cheaper slave-labor. Many slaves could be
fIooucers who now are merely consumers.
we are now, as heretofore, and as also fire.
quentiy expressed, an ious that the business
OF raising silk shall be properly commenced
ana pursued in Virginia ]; yet we have but
niue favor Tor, or confidence in, the new
porn zeal Tor raising mulberry plants mere.
y 10 sell al great profit TO other persnns, " no
lject W.
| The Northern nursery.men have as ve,
nad The supplying Of the Southern demand
or 'neSe plants, although at double the pri.
cess al winch far better plants might have
Deen bought in Virginia. John Carrier. near
richmond, who went early, (loo eariy. as
seemed into this business, for want of
purchasers, had TO dig up and throw sway
| thousands oi young morus muil,couiis trees.
aner 'hey had grown 30 large that he could no,
p"e mem inc ground they occupied. Sub
sequentiy, he sold the remnant TO prea,
| Northern nursery man, al less than half the
price at which these Cor much worse ones
~ not these,) were sent back from New
ork, and sold in Virginia. and in some ca
ses probably 10 gentlemen not far from Rich.
mond, out who-had not heard Of any supply
10 ne obtained except from Northern nurse.
res. Inc iat:her North the plants are rais-
ea' ana the more careful and more forcipp
their culture, the worse they are 10 prona.
gate from. The Northern nursery.men en-.
aeavor 10 remedy the defect of their climate
oy using the richest soil, and the most slim.
uia'inS culture. The plants are pushed in
grown unnaiurally and when winter stons
| .heF 'oIther vegetation, half the years in
| crease oil wood is immature, and is so succu.
ient ana tender as 10 be unable to sland the
| winter, and unfit TO raise from, even if kent
through winter sheltered from frost. These
immature buds, however, ,oiH sell and they
are TIT for nothing else. A Southern nIani
raised without forcing culture ia worth mors
- propagate from, than halfa dozen from a
Nor'hern nursery, OF equal size This has
already oeen fully proved in Virginia, by
| nose who have brought plants and cuttings
| rom The north, as well as near home. and
SUBJECTED both 10 the like treatment after be
ing planted"
In a subsequent article of the me No.
Oh Inc Register the October No.) the Edi
'or takes more favorable view OF the pres
ent Mulberry speculation. He ST. tes as the
lesoi, OF further information, that 1.-THE de-
mand for plants Of the Chinese mulberry has
indeed SO greatly increased at the North
that every plant and cutting now in Virgin.
ia, may be sold this year 10 Northern pur.
cnasers al the highes! prices. To our pre-.
s'ous views and recommendations, there fore.
we would add the advice 10 all who have
plants TO spare, not 10 sell any 10 tpeculators
lower than al the highest prices; 10 raise az
many plants as possible in 1899, from the
STOCK retained, and to be prepared then 10
| supply inc whole country, al greatly reduc
ca prices, and yet at greater profits than the
highest prices al present would give. Eve.
~ single bud planted next Spring, and we'll
taken care of, will produce from 10 TO 70
| ouds-say not less than 30 on an average
and therefore at half cent, or even quar-.
Ter cent the bud, the stock Of 1886 will Weld
much greater sum than the presen! grow
Ing stock al 2 cents the bud, or 25 or 80
cents the rooted plant. But whether the
sales are made this year at present high price.
or next year at much lower, il is gratifying
that The course Of trade is so c0mpleteIy
turned, and that Norlhern purchasers are
now coming TO the South for supplies, and
INA. inns year more money will thus be paid
10 virginia, than all that the Northern nurse.
| ry-meD have before got from US for their i'm.
mature and defective plants, with which this
State was stocked.
| "li is not merely the rage of speculatiop.
stimulated by legislative bounties. that has
caused This great demand al the North
There is real and great scarcity of n.orus
lmun'caulis caused by the immense loss of
cuttings by the wet and cold weather Of last
winter and early spring, and The drought Of
summer.
since the goth Of August, the agents Of
~ 'eas' nVe different and distant nnuiticau!is
uea'ess nave visited this place, for the pur
CHASING The plants which are in and near
relersourg. Most OF those agents have
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