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to a vine the present year, with only ordinary cultivation, 

 making twelve thousand and fifty-nine pounds to an acre ; at 

 twelve and one-half cents a pound, which is no more than the 

 average price the last few years, this amounts to 11,507. 37|, 

 and at ten cents a pound, the price for which large quantities 

 could be sold, $1,205.90 ; this will repay the grower. 



Another inducement to some persons is, that much of the 

 labor can be performed by females, or persons unable to do very 

 hard work. 



We hope and expect to see many new vineyards cultivated 

 in the good old State of Massachusetts, and particularly in that 

 part known as Middlesex County, and our county as noted for 

 good grapes as Cambridge, in the same county, is for its very 

 fine pears, for the introduction, cultivation and dissemination 

 of which much credit is due to the Messrs. Hovey, of that 

 place, who grow large quantities of a very fine quality at their 

 nurseries — twenty thousand bushels, it is said, having been 

 raised in that city the present year. 



We think there is a good and sufficient reason why we should 

 supply our own markets, and perhaps those of Maine, New 

 Hampshire, and part of the British Provinces, with grapes, and 

 that is, we can grow them at a good handsome profit. 



We should also make the wine we consume, and keep our 

 money at home, rather than send it abroad for a foreign pro- 

 duction ; then we should have the satisfaction of drinking a 

 pure article, instead of the drugged stuff our market is now 

 supplied with. 



To those who intend to cultivate the grape as an article of 

 profit, we would say that we think it offers a more certain 

 return in dollars and cents than any other fruit. The state- 

 ments we have made in regard to profits are not fancy estimates, 

 but are facts that can be relied upon. 



J. B. Moore, /or Committee. 



PLYMOUTH. 



Statement of Thomas O. Jackson, of Plymouth. 

 Pear Orchard. — The pear orchard I entered for the premium 

 of 1862, contains nearly one acre. The soil is a clayey loam. 



