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old farm routine could in any way be made to yield. How he has proved 

 the vineyard rules received from European authorities far from being best 

 adapted for his situation and circumstances, and thought out, and worked 

 out by experiment, a system for himself. How he has created a new de- 

 mand with the public, while he was himself supplying it, and how 

 scrupulous he always is that every product he sells shall be superior of 

 its kind and put up in the best style. It is self-evident, we think, that not 

 one of these particulars is immaterial to the farmer who would succeed 

 well in his business. 



' 'Another which we wish to bring forward, is the way in which Dr. Under- 

 bill contrives, in almost every process, if we may quote a homely proverb, 

 to "kill two birds with one stone." Where he has dug the deposits of 

 vegetable and alluvial matter by the water's edge, for manure, a very 

 little extra labor has transformed the ugly excavation into a fish pond; a 

 water gate admits the fish from the river but will not let them out, and 

 through the same channel the rising and falling tide prevents the lakelet 

 from lying stagnant. The pond not only supplies fish, but plums — the 

 trees being planted over it at an angle of perhaps forty -five degrees to pre- 

 vent the ravages of the curculio, while it is also bordered with pears and 

 quinces, and thus the land dug out and removed is not only made to yield 

 a crop of fruit where it is put as manure, but another over the hole it left 

 behind. The forests are cleared out and seeded with orchard-grass, and 

 the leaves falling in autumn are taken away for use, as we have seen, as 

 well as that they may not smother the turf where they fell. Sods are 

 required for the manure heap, and paths and roads tastefully, and here 

 and there quite picturesquely threading the woods and climbing the river 

 banks, are laid out and kept in order to yield them, as well as to furnish 

 delightful drives and walks. It may abate somewhat from the romance 

 of the beautiful, thus to find the useful ever lurking under its mantle, but it 

 certainly brings it within the reach of many who now fancy it something 

 beyond or above them, as well as places it in a new light to not a few, 

 who are in the habit of considering themselves far too practical to seek it. 

 UtUe didci is Dr. Underbill's motto."' 



