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such size, beauty and perfection, as to convince us that five pounds 

 of superior quality can be grown under our system where one can 

 be produced under established methods. 



We have grown marrow fat peas to nearly or quite double the 

 size of the ordinary product at the rate of upwards of five hundred 

 bushels of pods to the acre ; we have also grown an equal number 

 of bushels to the acre of pods of McLean's dwarf varieties and 

 have now growing, a drill of the Champions of England, loaded 

 with pods promising upwards of a thousand bushels per acre, at 

 least. 



We have grown the ordinary blood beet to a length of three and 

 a half feet, and become convinced that these may be more than 

 doubled in length under the best conditions of our system. 



We have brought out from our hillside a flowing well of crystal 

 waters of a degree of purity and temperature to grow brook 

 troui 



We are convinced, that what we have done in the growth of the 







fruits of the earth can be done in all regions of hills, valleys and 

 undulations, and that too, at a cost in fitting farm lands, of no 

 more than fifty dollars per acre, and, in a majority of instances, 

 not exceeding thirty dollars. 



We are convinced that models as perfect as our own can be pre- 

 pared at an expense of no more than two hundred dollars per acre, 

 and in a majority of instances they will cost no more than one 

 hundred dollars per acre. 



Of the fruits pictured along the pages of our book, we will only 

 say that the quince, measuring twelve inches in circumference is 

 no more than three-fourths grown. We grew specimens in 1882 to 

 the circumference of fifteen inches, the size of a pint bowl. That 

 the specimen protographed would in a month longer have grown 

 to a circumference of fifteen inches, we are well convinced. 



