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"The prices are so various, tliat it is nearly imjios- 

 sihlp to give exact estimates. Buyers say the price 

 is 50 cents per tree — the sellers, that it is 7o cents. 



" Within a few days trees have been oU'ered at 15 

 cents, 17 cents, ami 20 cenis per foot, the root with 

 one inch of sfalk bein<j counted as one of the feet, 

 and some fine plants have been sold at .$1, and .*;1.50 

 the tree. The (general belief is, that nearly all the 

 trees for sale within 40 miles of this city have been 

 sold. The growers sjenerally choosinijto keep a large 

 stock on hand for seed the ensuing season; and well 

 they may like to continue propagating, for in many 

 instances their profits have reached 1,000 per cent, 

 while others who have not been so forlunate in their 

 cultivation or soil, have netted 500 per cent, within 

 the last six months." 



A purchase has very lately been made of more than 

 20,000 young trees, untrimmed, from J. Atkinson, 

 Esq., Pitt county, N. C, at 40 cents. Only a few of 

 them are of the second year's growth, nearly the 

 whole being from cuttings set out last spring, (1838.) 

 But, as stated by the purchaser, the youngest trees are 

 uncommonly fine, being nearly or quite 6 feet of ave- 

 rage height; and some few of the youngest which grew 

 on hog-pen ground, are nine feet high. These are 

 strong evidences of the superior and remarkable fit- 

 ness of the climate of the southern states for this va- 

 luable tree. It is now a matter of congratulation, 

 that this large parcel is purchased for planting in 

 North Carolina. The demand of purchasers from the 

 northern market has been so great as to threaten to 

 leave in the south but a small stock to plant next 

 spring. 



A gentleman who has a lot of multicaulis trees in Pe- 

 tersburg, has been offered, and refused to take $'1 per 

 tree, (untrimmed,) for all the trees of more than one 

 season's growth. These plants are of the second and 

 third season; but not having been taken care of, as to 

 proper soil and culture, they are not six feet, average 

 height, and of much less sixe than all ought to have 

 in two seasons from the cuttings. Of some of the 

 same original stork, (brought from the north when 

 very small, and set out in spring of 1837,) but which 

 have stood in rich land, a few entire plants have been 

 sold at $5 a-piece. These were not the best. They 

 had all been cut off near the ground last fall, and the 

 whole of the present tops, (now 7 or 8 feet high,) are 

 of this season's growth. 



Contracts have recently been made hero for some 

 thousands of plants of the growth of IS.*?!), untrimmed, 

 and to be from 2 to 4^ feet high, to be delivered in the 

 autumn of 1839, at 12^ cents the plant. 



A friend has shown to us letters, just received in 

 answer to his inquiries, from the owners of the most 

 entensive nursery in New York, and another in Balti- 

 more. The prices of both are copied below, not only 

 for present information, but also for the admiration of 

 the curious hereafter, when this mania shall have sub- 

 sided. 



The tariff of prices at which the New York estab- 

 lishment offers to sell, is as follows, for the plants, all 

 the side-branches trimmed off. 

 Plants 1 to 2 feet high, - - - 20 cents. 

 " 1 to 3 " " - . . 25 " 

 " 11 to 2 " « - . . 22 « 

 " ll to 2^ « « - . . 25 " 



Plants 1^ to 3 feet high, 

 " I J to 3.i " " 

 " Ih to 4 " " 

 " 2 to 4 " " 

 " 2 to 5 " " 



28 cents. 

 sn " 

 35 " 

 38 " 

 45 " 



The writer adds, that when the expected state 

 bounty for silk is offered, that all the plants in the 

 United States could not supply the demand in the state 

 of New York alone. 



The answer from the Baltimore nursery men, says, 

 " We sold last week our entire crop at 22^ cents — 50 

 and 60 cents per tree, without side branches." — 

 " Cuttings with two eyes are now worth .f60 per 

 thousand." 



A letter from another well-informed friend in Bal- 

 timore, dated September 22, states the recent sales be- 

 tween the speculators, have been at 10 cents the foot 

 of length for trimmed plants, and 20 cents the foot for 

 those not trimmed. 



From the American Silk Gron-er. 

 BIULTICAULIS PLANTS ON LONG ISLAND. 



We are indebted to Wm. Kenrick, Esq. of 

 Newton, Mass., who recently made us a visit, 

 for some information concernincf the mulberry 

 prospects at the north and east. He informed us 

 that his trees had prospered finely, and that he 

 should have 100,000. On his way hither he call- 

 ed at the nursery of William Prince and Sons, on 

 Long Island, and said that those gentlemen plant- 

 ed six acres of cuttings and three acres of trees. 

 The trees had done well, but the cuttings had 

 failed, or nearly so, as had all the cuttings that 

 were planted on the island. He thought, howe- 

 ver, that Prince and Sons might have 100,000, but 

 not more. Why will gentlemen advertise ten 

 limes as many trees as they have growing? Will 

 it not deceive and injure individuals and the pub- 

 lic? 



For the Fanners' Register. 

 ON SERDLTNOS OF CHINESE AND OTHER MUL- 

 BERRIES. 



In a late number of the Register, there are 

 some editorial remarks to establish the fact, that 

 seedlings of the rnorus multicaulis do not conform 

 entirely with the characteristics of the parent. I 

 have recently had an opportunity of making a 

 careful examination of several multicaulis seed- 

 lir)gs; and I can also certify, that, though there is 

 a general family likeness, they are certainly differ- 

 ent from their parent. At the same time, there is 

 sufTicient testimony to prove, that in some in- 

 stances the resemblance is complete. Gideon B. 

 Smith, of Baltimore, who is good authority on the 

 subject, contends for their identity of character; 

 and David Thomas, of New York, one of the 

 most intelligent and scientific botanists in this 

 country, assured me in the course of some remarks 

 he made on the article "on agricultural humbugs," 

 that he had several seedlings xvhich were precise- 

 ly like the original; and he'had no doubt the mul- 



