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dwelling-house is so beautifnl ^structure as to com 

 mand admiration anywhere. He has planted 

 orchards, now growing finely, and has acres of ex 

 cellent wheat. His large cornfield showed as fine 

 a growth as farmer could desire, and so also did his 

 clover crop. 



I walked over his ample garden, vineyard, and 

 fruit grounds. Every kind of ordinary garden truck 

 was growing with a luxuriance altogether unex 

 pected, and fully equal to the average of that on 

 lands that sell readily at seven times the cost of his. 

 Several hundred grape vines, Concord, Isabella, and 

 Catawba, two years planted, showed such an excess 

 of fruit as to compel Mr. Guynneth to remove at 

 least half. In no section of New Jersey have I seen 

 the grape vine grow so rampantly as in this ground. 

 Cherry trees, pears, and other fruits, flourished 

 equally well. It was the same with strawberries, 

 gooseberries, and blackberries. This ground had 

 not received a particle of manure. What it now is 

 affords a practical illustration of the real value of 

 this section of New Jersey three years ago a 

 forest, now the productive and really elegant home 

 of an intelligent and accomplished family. 



On reaching the extreme boundary of the Yine- 

 lancl tract, I called on Mr. Robert G. Brandriff, who 

 has here cultivated a farm of 90 acres during the 

 last eleven years. This length of tillage I judged 

 likely to show what was the real stamina of this 

 soil whether it had any enduring heart in it, or 

 whether it would speedily run down to barrenness. 

 As Mr. BrandrifFs land was of even lighter char- 



