The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-09-28

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| mel .ts in the estimation of the market gar
dener. 1t ripeps just as the supply of
| .lIpberries and strawberries has been eI-
heusted, and before peaches and grapes
come in, thus filling q orticultural vacuum
which had heretofore existed. Its NAM
moth size and luscious qualities insure for
it the highest prices, and it will readily
yield 1000 quarts to the acre, and pays the
grower enormously. Its flavor is entirely
different from the wild fruit, while it
aboulds in juice, and has no core. =
Very soon every Que wanted the fruit, and
the whole p,ighborhood wanted the plants.
My profits from this source were not
exceptional; there are thousands of cult
vators who are coneta1tly in the market as
purchasers. and every fruit-grower, like
myse1f, has been compelled to buy in the
beginning; but his turn for selling will
invariably come round, and if he hos gone
into the propagation at an early day his
profits will be all the larger"
| These relAarks and others to the same
purport refer to the Lawton but they
apply with the same force to fifty other
crops the culture of which has not yet been
| introduced into this State; and the field of
operation for any one Of them is as inviting
| here, and more Gel tain to be successful,
than Jersey WAS at this time as a
locality, or the Lawton was as novelty.
Virginia must soon become the great garden
| ground for northern supply; for while
every rival grower there is straining every
| contrivance to force his plants to maturity
| n few days or hours before the rest, since
he can get double price for every crop that
is first in the market, the Virginia grower,
| without effort, by favor of climate alone,
can have the markets for full three weeks
all to himself, and clear out the entire
growth of anything he plants before prices
have fallen to the level that northern
| abundance is sure to bring and if his
! garden is convenient to navigation, he can
place his crops in New York market in
TWO nights and day from Richmond, with
as little damage by transportation, and as
little cost of freight, as Jersey grower
! can forward his by land-carriage whose
place is twelve or fifteen miles in the inte-
rior. A load of truck or fruit shipped at
Rockets or Norfolk is landed on Washing
| ton Market dock in thirty or forty hours !;
and in this famous vegetable mart thou
sands of greedy buyers stand awaiting the
| boat to snatch up everything, no matte"
how large the quantity, that is good of its
kind.
The author does not give his name nor
exact locality, but his statements are known
| to be reliable and his residence to be Bur-
| lington, on the Delaware. His book has
| taken rank as q classic on horticulture, and
has made the scene of his operations clas-
sical also so that from the desire Of many
- fp1
low in his exact footsteps, property has
risen in that vicinity to extraVagant prices.
| The time his narrative covers Is about ten
| years, closing soon after the war and as he
| is of Tribune proclivities, and too didactic
in some of his latter pages, he will not,
when he steps out of his garden, be ap-
proved by southern readers. Nor does he
| carry his particulars of receipts and ex-
| penditures further than the first three years,
but Re seems to have gone on progressively
increasing his profits for the ensuing seven,
till We hear of investments in bonds and
mortgages, improved style of living, social
| intimacy with the most eminent Of his
neighbors, and offers for his place of twice
its cost.
These results satisfy him that ten acres
is enough, and when to them we add the
profits of ten editions of his book, and add
also the enhanced value he has given the
lands in his vicinity, from a desire of SO
many to cluster around it, we are surprised
at the greatness of the events that sprung
from the trivial cause of disappointed
Philadelphia mechanic selling out his
plant and settling in Jersey to grow cab
bages. But the story of this mans expe-
rience teaches an important lesson which
thousands of Virginians, at this crisis OF
their fortunes, should lay to heart. No
money would be better spent by patriotic
society or individual than in publishing an
abbreviated edition of the book at price
which would place it within reach of
every citizen of the State, for it proves that
we are throwing away for mess of pottage
extensive areas of land, every ten acres OF
which contains within its soil treasures
that q little enterprise would secure for
ourselves, but which are now being frittered
into the ownership of foreigners, among
whom the noble distinction of Virginian
will soon be submerged, and have no appli-
cation in its higher sense but to persons
and things of the past. And If this notice
of the book is extended beyond the length
its merits deserve, it is because its sub
ject matter is deserving Of all notice,
and is one in which Virginians have q
special interest, We are undertaking
our opportunities, and it is to keep this
whole subject viyidly before the eyes OF
our people and to preserve as far as posi-
BILE Virginia to Virginians that the Dis
patch has noticed this book, and gives to il
a space that only the Importance of the
subject can justify. Why should owners OF
land more extensive than many European
principality sit desponding over the ca
lamities that war has left while an indus
trious Scotchman, or German, or smart
Yankee, by acquiring ten acres of it, will
extract from only that fraction fortune
The author thinks "the experience Of
the first three years profit and loss is
quite enough for the purposes OF this 70.
lume. It has satisfied me, as it should
satisfy others, that ten acres are enough
ErDenSes for three gears. 1885, 1855. 1857.
Manure OF various kinds. ...$?oS S3ts 90 1888 OF
Wages and labor. .,,....,.,.,.' w zoo w Laa v:
Stakes and twine for Lawtons. :. 100 500
| Garden and other seeds. ls % -.
| Cabbage ndtumatO plantS.... ~ -.
| Lumber, nails, and suGdrles.. IL oo 81 VI
| Loss ON cow......, ......'''''' =, -, -,
Cost OF pigs S.....,.,......,..... - - w - "
Ss55 &7oe 50 sos o.
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| Receipts for three gears. 1855. ls5d 1881.
| Straw berries, six acres. $s5i w guy y!
| Lawton plants sold..,.....,,. 4oO 2l3 9o !OI W
Tomatoes one acre.....,...... Eo lsu w lS- W
| Garden, including ten peach - .
Trees o0 ~ oo % NJ
| CaDD3gcS. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. o. ~ w w
| Raspberries, two acres. % ~ 2ol "
| laWtOnS, one acre. Lob Sd ZUo U!