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,The largest specimen of the Lombard plum, a drawing of which 

 is given, is somewhat less than another stolen from the tree be- 

 fore fully ripe. None of the pictures of the plums come up to the 

 reality, since we were obliged to pluck them before fully ripe, to 

 save them from being stolen. 



During a visit to our home by Mr. "William C. Harris, on Sep- 

 tember 17, we plucked a head of early Paris cauliflower, which 

 had grown in twelve days to the circumference of thirty-one 

 inches. This was measured in the presence of Mrs. Harris. At 

 same date, we dug one hill of Early Eose potatoes, the vines by no 

 means dead, but the tubers still growing, which were weighed by 

 Messrs "W. C. Harris, and J. H. Selkreg, with results as follows : 



The potatoes from this one hill weighed 16| pounds, upwards 

 of a peck to the hill. Five of the potatoes measured the largest 

 ivay round as follows: 17, 17^, 18, 18, and 18| inches, and all 

 averaged nine inches in girth. The memorandum from which we 

 copy is in the handwriting of Senator Selkreg, and signed by him. 

 That the potatoes from this one hill would have weighed twenty 

 pounds, had they been left to their full growth, we have little 

 doubt. 



We conclude this chapter by a statement, made as follows by 

 E. F. Stelle, an intelligent farmer, who has been the superintend- 

 ent during the last two seasons of our model five acres. 



" To all whom it may concern. 



"A year ago the 29th of June last, I called on Mr. Cole having in 

 view work on his place as a temporary expedient, not having the 

 least idea of continuing in his employment more than a week or 

 two at the utmost. I considered myself a good farmer, and felt 

 that I knew considerable about gardening. I had heard inciden- 

 tally of a new system of agriculture and horticulture of which Mr. 

 Cole was the discoverer. This he explained briefly, but at the 



