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Tour committee unanimously award to Prof. James J. Mapes 

 the premium of a silver cup, for the best cultivated farm of 25 

 acres. 



A. NASH, 



JAS. DE. PEYSTER, 

 DAVID BANKS, 

 THOMAS BELL, 

 NICHOLAS WYCKOFF, 



Committee. 

 John W. Chambers, Sec^y, 



FARM OF LEWIS MORRIS. 



Tour committee respectfully report, that on the 10th day of 

 July, 1852, they visited the farm of Col. Lewis Morris, of Morris- 

 ania, Westchester county, N. Y. 



This farm consists of 200 acres of land, 55 of which is salt peat 

 marsh land. It is located on the north side of Harlem river, op- 

 posite tlie Island of New-York, on the east side of the road run- 

 ning from the 3d Avenue in New-York city to West Farms, and 

 formerly the old post road to Boston. The domains are a part of 

 the ancient grant of Morrisania, and for many generations past 

 have been owned in the Morris family, who were the original 

 grantees under the British crown. 



The upland of the farm in question is mostly a yellow loam, 

 resting upon mica slate rock, with occasionally a bed and stratifi- 

 cation of limestone ; the land generally declines to the south and 

 east, and probably no part of it lies higher that 250 feet above 

 tide water in the Harlem river. 



Tlie first object at the mansion house of Col. Morris, which 

 gained the admiration of your committee, were the shade trees 

 which had been planted around it, and which formed a delight- 

 ful retreat in summer. In front and around the house were stand- 

 ing a Sugar maple, Acer saccharinnm ; a Bass-wood or Lime tree, 



