Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 August 1859 — "FAR-FETTCHED & DEAR-BOUGHT,” [ARTICLE]

"FAR-FETTCHED & DEAR-BOUGHT,”

I Is a saying that has brought its truth ’dourly purchased to many ol us. We are led to the use of the cap'ion to this article from i the fact that we find u tendency among our people to make their purchases, oi trees and [shrubbery from the so-called agen stf Easti ern nurseries, rather than buy of our own ! citizens. For the past lew years the West has been flooded with persons purporting to ' be agents of famous Eastern nurseries, who have sold iruit tress and shrubbery b thousands, that had been raised in obscure nurseries along the Ohio river. Thousands of j farmers have, been thus gulled, and found out, when too lute, that the trees with ) high-sounding names, they had bought ol ' traveling agents, were not worth the plantj ing. Wo are credibly informed that Jasper county has suffered in this 'manner to tin* | tune of hundreds o! dollurs in a single seai son. We recommend our friends, when they are making their purchases of trees for the useful or ornamental, to be sure they ! are dealing with responsible parties. Mr. I Coen and Dr. Martin are both reliable Mien, and both have on hand line assortments ol the very best quality of apple trees, and the latter gentleman cun supply to any demand anything in the shape ol a tree, shrub, bush or vine, that the people may want, and at as low prices us can he furnished by any one. Let the people, then, in behalf ol their own interests, buy their trees at their home nurseries, where the stock is acclimated, of thje best, quality, and more likely to do well j than ii brought from —no one knows where. 0-b/”We learn that lion. Graham L.. Fitch ; is lying dangerously sick at his residence in 1 ,■ qjansp.Tt.