108 N. H. STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



nure made from tliem, and a little labor, we have met with 

 pretty good success. Our garden contains about three fourths 

 of an acre. One half is devoted to Indian corn and the 

 other half to other articles, as follows, in part: — Early 

 and sweet corn, beans, peas, potatoes, onions, tomatoes, tur- 

 nips, cucumbers, squashes, pumpkins, melons, calabash, pep- 

 pers, cabbages, carrots, parsnips, beets, radishes, millet, 

 grapes, dock, hoarhound, mint, camomile, sage, saffron, worm- 

 wood, tansey, horse radish, and a few flowers to make it 

 pleasant. Our currant bushes, that were sprouts three years 

 ago, have this year borne fruit sufficient for eight gallons of 

 wine, and thirty pounds of nice preserves. Our table has been 

 bountifully supplied with vegetables since the first of July, 

 and we have sold about $30 worth to our neighbors. Now 

 if you will please to give us a call with the judges on gar- 

 dens for the Hillsborough County Society, you will confer on 

 us a favor. Yours, <fec., 



NATHANIEL & NANCY BAKER, 



Baker's Grove, Manchester. 



Appended to this communication was the following post- 

 script : — " Let us encourage agriculture, or we never can pay 

 such premiums for a Horse Show." " A well founded sug- 

 gestion," I thought. 



" I will visit Mr. and Mrs. Baker, and their garden, as re- 

 quested, if no untoward event prevents it," said I, to my fam* 

 ily, upon reading the above note. 



Subsequently, I was informed by Mr. Adams that Mr. Ba- 

 ker had entered his garden for premium, and tliat at some 

 time during the Hillsborough County Fair, at Manchester, he 

 would accompany me on a visit to it — an offer which I gladly 

 accepted. So in the company of Mr. Secretary Adams, and 

 Messrs. Stewart, of Amherst, and Clement, of Hudson, the 

 Committee of the Hillsborough County Society, on Gardens, 

 Ac, on tlie second of October, I visited the premises of our 

 good friends, Mr. and Mrs. Baker. 



Some rods from the road, and back of a few original forest 



