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farm for pleasure, but most of us farm for profit. We are 

 talking about gardening for profit. Now where can you make 

 the most money ? I do not believe you can make it in raising 

 ruta-bagas ; they are very heavy to carry to market, especially 

 if you happen to be twenty miles from a market, but you can 

 make thousands of dollars in raising asparagus, and you can 

 send it just as well twenty, thirty or fifty miles, as you can send 

 it four miles. It may be that the middle men get rather more 

 than they ought, but that is one thing ; it is not heavy to cart., 

 and it always sells. I never knew the market glutted with 

 asparagus. Mr. Moore raises the best that is raised in Massa- 

 chusetts. I never knew the market fully supplied with cauli- 

 flower or asparagus. I never knew it glutted with celery, and 

 so it is with lettuce. Do you know that Boston supplies the 

 lettuce and celery for the markets of New York and Phil- 

 adelphia, to considerable extent ? It is true ; in my own town 

 of Newton, hundreds of dollars worth of lettuce are sent to- 

 New York every spring. It seems very strange that they can- 

 not get lettuce there. It can be raised anywhere where they 

 will attend to it. One hundred dollars worth of it will not 

 weigh as much as five barrels of ruta-bagas that you would not 

 get more than $15 or $20 for. Now you can raise lettuce out 

 of doors and in doors. I speak of these things merely by way 

 of illustration. This is a subject which I could talk about a 

 great while, but it was not my intention to speak at any length. 

 I wanted simply to throw out these hints to provoke some dis- 

 cussion. I want to hear from others who I know are well 

 qualified to speak on this subject. 



Mr. Stone. I am not going to make a speech : we have 

 some gentlemen here, Mr. Moore and Mr. Slade, and others who 

 know all about this subject that is now before us. If we can 

 get our friend Moore at it, I think he will give us something 

 that will please us ; and if there are any gentlemen here who 

 have attended the Concord show, and seen the display of 

 vegetables in that hall raised in and about Concord, Arlington, 

 &c, coming from those very market gardens that beat the 

 world, my friend Moore would need no further introduction 

 than to say that he is one of the men who does it. I hope he 

 will tell us how it is done ; and I hope we shall hear from our 

 friend Slade, who lives in this immediate vicinity, and who 



