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rant, your committee consider the prince of fruits, as it is so 

 reliable. These bushes were set out at two feet distance in the 

 rows, and the rows ten feet one from another, leaving ample 

 room to plough and team on manure, making the culture quite 

 easy. The open spaces were also in tillage. They had one 

 acre in asparagus, from which they cut fourteen hundred and 

 sixty-four bunches. The bed is ten years old. They had ten 

 acres of early potatoes, yielding them eleven hundred bushels, 

 which were all sold before the first of August. 



They had three acres in cabbages, which yielded them sev- 

 enty thousand five hundred heads ; one-third of an acre of on- 

 ions, with a yield of two hundred and seventy-three bushels. 

 They had half an acre each of beets, carrots, parsnips and horse 

 radish, which they had not gathered. They sold three hun- 

 dred barrels of tomatoes from two acres. The had three acres 

 to peas ; one acre to squashes ; half an acre to celery ; half an 

 acre to radishes ; half an acre to sweet corn ; thre(! acres to rye ; 

 ten acres to pasturing ; and the remainder to grass. From 

 thirty acres they cut fifty tons of hay. This garden, your com- 

 mittee consider to be in a very high state of cultivation, every 

 thing being turned to the best cash account. There was noth- 

 ing here for ornament saving the main object, high culture and 

 great crops, for which the committee regret that they had not a 

 premium to give. The awards to the other claimants were 

 granted, on what your committee deemed of vast impor- 

 tance, viz.: subduing of waste lands. Had not this been the 

 case, the Messrs. Parker, for high culture, large and profitable 

 products, would have stood in a favorable position for the first 

 premium. 



In the course of their rides, your committee were invited to 

 visit the grounds of S. D. Bradford, of West Roxbury. Mr. 

 Bradford's place is the patrimony inherited from his father, for 

 many years the respected clergyman of that parish, to which 

 he has neither added nor diminished from, being content with 

 his fifty-two acres, put in the very best condition to answer the 

 wants of a gentleman of fortune and fine taste. Your com- 

 mittee found this in perfect order, and managed with great 

 economy with regard to help. His own, cows, swine and poul- 



