106 PULASKI COUNTY, ILLINOIS. 



GEORGE W. ENDICOTT, 



VILLA RIDGE, PULASKI COUNTY. 



Apple Orchard — Trees Thoroughly Cultivated Five or Six 

 Years — Pear Orchard Planted on Level Ground the 

 Best — Crop Sure and Profitable — The Vineyard — 

 The Main Vine Should Grow Free — Cultivate Thorough 

 hut Shallow — Whitewash a Great Help to the Vines — Straw- 

 berries — Plants Set in Squares — Worked by Horse Power — 

 Peach Orchard — Fruit Gathered by Hand — Stveet Potatoes — 

 Farm Implements — Result — Fair Profit on an Improving 

 Property. 



MONOLOA FRUIT FARM 



is situated about three and one-half miles from Villa Ridge 

 OQ a high tract of land called Dutch Ridge, extending 

 northeasterly toward the Ohio river. The farm contains for- 

 ty-eight acres, mostly rolling. Forty acres are cleared and 

 planted to fruit. The remaining eight acres have been cleared 

 of the under brush and sown to orchard and blue grass, and 

 used as a park. The house is a large, square, two-story, hip- 

 roofed building, with large and well regulated cellar. The 

 barn is one of the cottage pattern, hip-roofed, with a large 

 ventilator. The other outbuildings are commodious. Along 

 the county road are planted pecan trees for shade. The cleared 

 land is planted as follows : 



Six acres in apple trees, 



Five acres in standard pear trees. 



Five and one-half acres in Ives' seedling grape vines, 



Three acres in peach trees. 



Five acres in strawberries. 



Five acres in sweet potatoes. 



Four acres in meadow. 



