66 THREE ACRES AND LIBERTY 



cumbers, radishes, and turnips off the same place. Weeds 

 won't have much chance in soil treated like that. 



"Multum in Parvo Gardening" (Samuel Wood) claims 

 620 ($3100) from one acre by the expenditure of con- 

 siderable capital in growing fruit against brick walls it 

 cost over $3100 to prepare the land, of which the walls cost 

 $2300. In this system the fruit trees are pruned and 

 trained till they look like firemen's ladders. 



" In the suburbs of Paris, even without such costly things, 

 with only thirty-six yards of frames for seedlings, vegetables 

 are grown in the open air to the value of 200 per acre." 

 ("Fields, Factories and Workshops," page 80.) 



"At the present tune, for fully 100 miles along the Rhone, 

 and in the lateral valleys of the Ardeche and the Drome, the 

 country is an admirable orchard, from which millions' worth 

 of fruit is exported, and the land attains the selling price 

 of from 325 ($1625) to 400 ($2000) the acre. Small 

 plots of land are continually reclaimed for culture upon every 

 crag." (Same, page 133.) 



In California we hear (from George P. Keeney) that while 

 good truck and fruit lands usually sell for $25 to $350 per 

 acre, the land with full-bearing fruit or nut trees often sells 

 at $1000, and even up to $2000 per acre. There is no 

 reason why any intelligent persons should not make their 

 land increase in the same way. 



The London Daily News reports that in one year, which 

 was not a good season for all crops, on a half acre of land, 

 Mr. Henry Vincent, of Brighton, England, raised the fol- 

 lowing products: 



2660 cabbages, 70 bushels spinach, 950 cauliflowers, 

 parsley, 1460 lettuces, 660 broccoli, 16 bushels potatoes, 

 191 bushels Brussels sprouts, 106* gallons peas, 120 gallons 



