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Scarcity Of Nursery Stock

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Parent Issue
Day
5
Month
February
Year
1864
Copyright
Public Domain
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-Oor nurserynien. says a llochest'jr paper, are recemug orders aud letters of imjutry about treea from all quurtera in unsu lly lwgtt nuK)bcr for the migou. It, is to ó regretted tliat they liava not dm atuck to llleOt tho druiand. Apple ti ees are the otily kind that may be callcd pienty. JPeacli trees are soarce aud lngli, eherries of dcsirable kinds are very acaree, and so .are pears. PriccH of trees wil I m!e jnuch higher than usual tlie coming jear. ïlie cause of this scaroily is attrihuted io the fact tliat many who vvere cultiva tiug trees abutiduned the bu.-iness or poutracted their operations under the imprcsaion that war would cause a fallrng off in the demaud. The deraatid has not ma'.erially decreased, while the production haa fallen off largely. Tbéra are lge elds of trees giowuig in tliis vicinity, aiuj the casual obsorver would suppoge the stock L be very large, but til is county is the great nursery garden of the world, and the stock here grown has to supply many S'ates aud tji,s of ihousands of cu.itomers. K3L" öne of the fair daughters of ion was recently singing a fasliiouabie für at a high pitch of voice, when na Irishnian, who was passing by, ruslied io with a look of astonisliijient, md t-xclaimed, l Isure, and I thoaght sume oue was being naurtherd ! " I It is a oommon trick of onc of the principal American conjurors to make hia wife suddenly di-appear from the eyCB of the spectators, If he could teaoh. to other husbauda ihis trick of making wives vauish, he would have a fait Opeuing fur A ícirluüe.

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Subjects
Old News
Michigan Argus