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The whole annual cost of conducting a nur- 

 sery, in New England, for a series of years, 

 will not fall short of $200 per acre.^ A few 

 lines will exhibit some of the items of this 

 expense : 



Rent, or Interest on suitable land, near a good 



tree-market, / $30,00 



Labor, of men, &c. planting out, cultivating, 



grafting, pruning, taking up, selling, &c., 90,00 



Stock, including a due proportion of the first 



outlay, the anaual cost of seeds, stocks for 

 ^ , -grafting, tools, &c., &c., taking the annual 



average for a series of years, . . . 35,00 



Manure, <?JFjr> ,90ffllivi fife STOJffe 1 .fctfVr5.ff 15,00 

 Advertising, i v"<v'"f ?!,-*>'.* - rtv\ #*i<v^ **fi 

 Incidental expenses, . f * ^ ' ' ' ^fi 



Interest, annually accruing on these outgoes before 



the trees are sold, . . . . \ >* * 20,00 



Total Annual Expense of a one-acre nursery, . $200,00 



^The above items would vary greatly of 

 course, in different localities, and also, from 

 year to year, in the same nursery. Such an 

 average estimate cannot be very accurately 

 made ; but whoever thinks it may be too large, 

 will mid no difficulty in swelling it to the 

 present amount, by adding the losses arising 



* This cost is very clearly shown, in detail, in the Albany Cul- 

 tivator Sept. No. of 1848 page 279. Two very important er- 

 rors, in the article, will be found corrected on the 310th page of 

 the Oct. No. of the same year. Ambitious young nursery-men 

 will do well to read attentively the article alluded to. 



