120 



from the numerous accidents that destroy so 

 many young trees, and from the depreciated 

 value of fine trees that have become unpopu- 

 lar varieties since they were grafted ; the 

 bad debts also, which are never paid, the cost 

 of collecting good debts, discount on retail 

 prices, &c., &c. 



Five thousand saleable trees are the very 

 utmost that an acre will, in general, produce. 

 The average age of the trees sold, is certainly 

 not less than five years. Therefore, but one 

 thousand trees, upon an average, can annually 

 be sold from a one-acre nursery : in favorable 

 years, more, in others, less. 



Thus it appears that five years' old nursery- 

 trees must be sold at an average price of about 

 twenty cents apiece to defray expenses. But 

 the nursery-man must support himself, not 

 from outgoes, but from PROFITS ! Put the 

 price at twenty-five cents a tree, and fifty dol- 

 lars profit will be left annually in the hands 

 of the proprietor of a one-acre nursery. If it 

 be objected to this calculation that many trees 

 are sold at much higher rates, let it also be 

 understood that such trees are often eight or 

 ten years old. In a word from a little expe- 

 rience, and from considerable observation of, 



