Cheraw gazette and Pee Dee farmer. [volume] (Cheraw S.C.) 1838-1839, 1839-08-30

Oot sIS HaS PutSneoSo SiseWueIcS ~ tu0 usoSs
ket.
The same paper furnishes an account Of
large number Of recent sales for planting ne1t
season in different parts Of the country, at
various pricess some of which. we quote, all the
other sales being within the extremes Of those
quoted. 80 -
The following sales Of Multicaulis trees have
been communicated to US from authentic sour-
cess:
A sale of 1900 trees was made at Bevidere,
N. J. within about week, at II cent?
per foot, the root to be measured as part Of the
tree, payable on delivery. At York, Pa, last
week, an acre and quarter in trees sold TOT
S6,OO0-terms not mentioned. At ColumbieI
Pa, Delano has made sales at Is cents, per
foot. At Eiilkboro' Md. sales have been made
at 25 to SO cents, and at 81 SO for trees from
the root. They are in few hands az Hillsboro,
and holders refuse less than so cents. Mr..
Edward H. StabIer, Of Baltimore, last week
sold 10000 trees at 80 cents, and 1000 at so
cents, the latter lot to be taken az they grow,
rejecting all trees under three feet high. Mr..
Joseph Talln,an, Gf this city, in Market street,
near Second, sod last week al his trees now
growing on. hin. farm in Lower Dublin, on the
Bristol turnpike, in this county, ten miles from
the city, supposed to be about Ss s0O0V at %
cents each, rejecting all under one foot;
5000 equal 70 each was paid on signing re
contract, the balance on delivery. This % TIC
inwsse price we know to have been accepted:
These trees cost Mr. Tallman $685. showing
a clear profit for cuItiyation of more than
$1,000; he cut bis trees into single buds.
n. rI>.l- Il D:~hs-onS U:erv,rso ss,sxh:~S <,,,e
weeks, has sold all his treess large and small,
as they stand on the ground, at % cents each;
the sale amounted to fraction less than
$4,000. The whole lot was purchased Tor
the West, and will 60 there; $500 was paid
on closing the contract, and the balance 90
delivery. At Petersburg, Va, last week
100000 buds were sold in one lot, at. ] cent
Der bud, and second lot Of 100000 at the
same price with the addition Of the roots
thrown in without charge the seller receives
500 additional tor cultiva.ing them until tho
time of delivery. Three miles from Richmond.
Va, two weeks ago, Mr.. fsham Puckett sold
about 1900 trees, as they stood on the ground,
large and small, at'$l each these were roots.
the whole root, with all its sprouts, going At
the above price. ,........' .s.-
AT Lawrenceville; Brunswick county, .virgi.
MA. large sales Of bads have bsen made at ono
cent, say in lots Of 10000. -"
At Bordentown, N. J. on Monday last, Mr..
VIM Hilton sold g. 500 trees at 50 cents each, to
Mr.. Jacob Janney, Of Rucks county, Pcnnsyt-
yania. $500 were paid down, half OF the re.
naming balance cash in 30 days from sale, and
the remaining half on delivery Of the -trees.--
without any exception.
The Northampton Massachusetts, Gazette
saws "A qentleman4in Whateleyi who purchas.
ed last spring $3.50 worth Of mnlberries, has
lust sold the crop growing thsreffom, to 90
delivered next autumn, for 9l,S00, being al
increase upon the outlay Of 81 $50, Tho trees:
are Of assorted HI d." >. :.
The most Of these trees, if not all, wers bought
on speculation. We learn, through gentlemen
from Mecklenbprg county Va. that sales in smaH
parcels. such a. are bought for planting, wese :
generally made, in that county at conts Per
bud and some athigher prices. q. .... >,
The feadc,. may be disposed to ask why =
so great difference in the prices at which
different lots Of trees are sod? Ono rea.'
son maybe that sellers; were ignorant Of The
market value of the trees, and being offered q
price which paid them good profit on the money,
and labor expended, they took il. fearing they
might not do SO well again. Persons who boy to
sell again are, of course, careful to ascertain the
market value before they buy. But different lots
oftrees do actually differ very greatly IN their
value for planting. Many entire lots, consideT.
Al good tfoes too. yield less thar an average Of
% good cuttings; whereas Others yield hundreds.
in this climnte at least And as the value for :
plsn,ingis Is pfopottionate tothe number Of buds
G. s:nature stalks Of good size, lots differing 20
much in this respect.ought to sell at diidfent
prices. When trees are planted in nursery 20
close that 10000, or even 10000 stand on an
acre. and that in poor land, as is oftsnthe case,
they attain but little height and if they have
side branches, th,se are 30 small that if divided
into one bud cuttings many Of. them must, ia the
best seasons, tail to grow, and those which do
grow, if they are not killed BY the carly sum.
mer's sun, mako small and feeble trees. Besides
trees which stand so close do not mature their
wood ~ we'll as those which haye more room.-
Every person of the least observation Who has
had any experience in raising the :taulticauliss
knows that large cuttings, other things being
equal, are not: only much moro aie to grow IN
unfavorable seasons than smaller ones ; but, also
that in all seasons, they make larger and more
vigorous trees the FIRST season, and OF course
furnish more and and better cuttings for the
next years planting. Therefore il is that cut.
tings from trees Of southern rearing succeed
better, and are in every respect more valuable
than those from trees reared at the north.
T. CONGRESSIONAL ELECTION IN ALABANA.-The
following are the members elect.
(Adm.) -(Whg)
n N <..... Cao w C,.hh- -