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SC/CCESS WITH SMALL FRUITS. 



stances, no other ma- 

 terial would have an- 

 swered, in others partly 

 because I was a novice 

 in the science of drain- 

 age, and partly because 

 I had the stones on 

 ray place, and did not 

 know what else to do 

 with them. I certainly 

 could not cart them on 

 my neighbors' ground 

 without having a sur- 

 plus of hot as well as 

 cold water, so I con- 

 cluded to bury them in 

 the old-fashioned box- 

 drains. Indeed, I 

 found rather peculiar 

 and difficult problems 

 of drainage, and the 

 history of their solution 

 may contain useful 

 hmts to the reader. 



In front of my house 

 there is a low, level 

 plot of land, containing 

 about three acres. 

 Upon this the surface 

 water ran from all sides, 

 and there was no outlet. 

 The soil was, in consequence, sour, and in certain spots only 

 a wiry marsh grass would grow. And yet it required but a 



