1837.] 



FARMERS' REGISTER. 



627 



satisfied Irom the opinion of our best cultivators of 

 trees, that your seedsmen and nurserj'meii; if they 

 have not been imposed upon bj^ pedlers of spuri- 

 ous seed, are but poorly fitted to laili about trees, 

 from cedars down to the hyssop. 

 Yours, &c. 



C. p. HUNTINGTON. 



Notes. 



[cf.] The deception charged, consisted in advertisins; 

 and selling" a spurious seed, for that of the Morus niui- 

 ticaujis ; and the deception is explicitly acknowledged 

 in the above letter of Mr. Huntington, where he says : 



" The advertisement of the Chinese mulberry, 

 which you copy from the Hampshire Gazette oi' 

 March 28, was ordered by JNIr. Whitmarsli, while 

 in Europe, a.d its terms ami description were dic- 

 tated by him. * * * I THEN SUPPOSED, 

 as you say otliers did in your vicinity, THAT IT 

 WAS THE MLTLTJCAILLS." "/£ urns not 

 until I saw him [Mr. Whitmarsh,] that I found 

 out it was not the Malticaulis.'''' 



[6.] We answer that it was, inasmuch as it was sold 

 Tinder the advertisement which Mr. Huntington ac- 

 knowledges deceived him into the belief that it was 

 the Morus midticaulis ; and that it was bou9:ht as the 

 Morus multicaulis, the following statements abundantly 

 show : 



Mr. L. Tucker — As you wished to know the cir- 

 cumstances of my obtaining the mulberry seed of 

 Mr. Whitmarsh, or his agent, I will state them. 

 Mr. Bradley, a gentleman living in this vicinity, 

 informed me that a friend of his, Mr. Fancher, 

 from Northampton, was at his house, and that he 

 had some of the Chinese mulberry seed for sale. 1 

 requested Mr. Bradley to ask Mr. Fancher par- 

 ticularly, if the seed was the Morus multicaulis, or 

 the Chinese mulberry, and if he could say that it 

 was such, 1 would take three papers ; but if he 

 (Mr. Fancher,) had any doubts of its being: the 

 Morus multicaulis, or Chinese mulberry, I did not 

 wish to take any of the seed. JMr. Fancher stated 

 to Mr. Bradley, that he thought the seed was the 

 Morus multicaulis, and that Mr. Whitmarsh would 

 not impose on any person so much, as to sell seeds 

 under false pretences ; and Mr. Fancher left, three 

 papers of the seed for me. Mr. Fancher informed 

 Mr. Bradley, that he had sold four or five papers 

 ofthe same kind of seed in Rochester, also twenty- 

 five papers in Utica, and liad also sold at different 

 places on the route fi-om Northaraptoa to this 

 place, and that he had more of the same kind of 

 seed for sale. Some days after \ had purchased 

 the seed, Mr. Fancher returned, and called at my 

 house. I then told Mr. Fancher, that in my 

 opinion, Mr. Whitmarsh had imposed on the pub- 

 lic in the sale of his mulberry seed, as by his ad- 

 vertisement, the impression had gone abroad, that 

 the seed he was selling was the Morus multicau- 

 lis, and that Mr. Whitmarsh's own proceedings 

 would prove that to be the case; for after quanti- 

 ties of the seed had been sold, Mr. Whitmarsh 

 had come out with a notice, informing people that 

 the seed he had sold was not the Morus multicau- 

 lis, but another variety of the Chinese mulberry. 

 Mr. Fancher replied, that if there was any decep- 

 tion, he was clear of any on his part, as he had 

 Bold the seed as it was represented to him. 

 Respectfully yours, 



ASA ROWE. 



Rochester Seed Store, December 2lst, 1836. 



Mr. L. Tucker — In answer to your inquiries I 

 would state, that on seeing his advertisement of 

 genuine Chinese mulberry seed and trees, we sent 

 Mr. Huntington a letter, ordering ^2.5 worth of 

 the seed, and inquiring the price of the trees, to 

 which we received a reply, dated Northampton, 

 April 13lh, stadng that Mr. Whitmarsh and the 

 seed had not yet arrived, but he had entered our 

 names lor five papers of the seed, adding, "it is 

 more precious than gold dust, as you will perceive, 

 having been collected at great e:cpense, and war- 

 ranted," &c. 



On the 4th of May,' a Mr. Fancher called on 

 us, as agent for Mr. W^hitmarsh, delivered our 

 seed according to order, received the money, and 

 oflercd to sell us more if we desired it. As the 

 business was done with Mr. Reynolds, who is now 

 absent on a journey, I cannot be positive as to all 

 that was said, but i am confident that no intima- 

 tion was given hitn of its being any other than the 

 seed of the genuine Chinese mulberry, or Morus 

 multicnulis; for when a few days afterwards, the 

 article in the Northampton paper, statinnr tjiat it 

 was not the Morus muhicaulis, was shown him in 

 my presence; he expressed his surprise and disap- 

 pointment, by saying, he believed it was all a 

 hoax and deception, and suggested sending the 

 seed back to Mr. Whitmarsh. But on refiection 

 we concluded to sow it ourselves, and see what the 

 result would be ; accordingly we sowed it all, ex- 

 cept one paper, and the product was, as has been 

 previously stated, nothing but Italian mulberry, 

 and but few of them. 



Yours respectful 1}', 



M. B. BATEHAM, 



Of the firm of Reynolds & Bateham. 



Mr. Tucker — In answer to your inquiry, 1 will 

 state, that at the time I purchased the two papers 

 of mulberry seed, alluded to in your paper of the 

 3d inst., no notice was given me that it was not 

 the Morus mvlticaulis, and the first intimation I 

 received, that the seed was not the genuine Chi- 

 nese mulberry, was contained in the article from 

 the Hampshire Gazette, of the 4th of May. I 

 bought a quantity of the (Jhinese mulberry trees 

 imported by Mr. Whitmarsh, and supposed the 

 seed and plants both to be the genuine Morus 

 multicaulis. The plants proved genuine — the 

 seeds produced, as I believe, the white Italian 

 mulberry, or a variety so similar to it as to render 

 it difficult to detect the difference. 



RALPH CHENEY. 



[c] The reader should bear in mind, that this state- 

 ment was made in the Hampshire Gazette, on the very 

 same daij, that the agent, Mr. Fancher, was in this 

 place. 



[(^.] Witness the copy of a letter from Mr. Hunt- 

 ington, to Mr. J. Swett, published in the Farmer of 

 last week, which is as follows: 



" Sir — Enclosed is a paper of Chinese mulberry 

 seed, .$5. You can have jiiore, if ordered soon. — C. P. 

 Huntington, for S. W." 



[e.] See Mr. Rowe's statement given above, in re- 

 lation to Mr. Fancher's agency. We may also add, 

 that we Vv'pre in Albany at the time Mr. Fancher re- 

 turned from the wps\, and he was spoken of there as. 



