is a washing and packing room, where all 
vegetables that have sand or clay on them 
are put into large troughs of water and 
washed clean before packing. 
Sixteen horses are emploj'ed and six mar¬ 
ket teams are run, carrying into Boston 
every morning from 10 to 15 tons of vege¬ 
tables of various kinds in their season. The 
proprietor has two stalls in the vegetable 
market in Boston, beside supplying to the 
order of commission merchants packages 
of vegetables to go to the various cities in 
the State, as well as to New Hampshire and 
other New England States, New York and 
Canada. In summer 40 men are employed, 
besides, and at intervals, a number of boys 
and women to do weeding, etc. At the 
time of this visit, a number of men were 
busily engaged in setting out celery plants, 
which, later on, would be planted in the 
place where they were destined to mature. 
Here two men are employed in watering 
the plants as they are set out and other 
growing plants, and there is enough of this 
kind of work to keep them employed all 
the time in dry weather. 
To give an idea of the extent of the crops 
raised an enumeration of some of the prin¬ 
cipal ones may be given. Twenty acres 
are planted in squashes; 20 acres in celery; 
10 acres in cauliflowers; 6 acres in onions; 
5 acres in early bunch beets; and 2 of late 
ones; 4 acres of tomatoes; half an acre of 
melons under glass, and 2 acres of melons 
outside; 2 acres of dandelions, and a num¬ 
ber of acres in beans, peas, carrots, etc. 
There are 6000 tomato plants in the 4 acres, 
which at an average yield of half a bushel 
to a plant will give as the crop on that land 
3000 bushels. The price of tomatoes ranges 
from 50 cents to $1 a bushel, according to 
season, so that for this crop alone at least 
$1500 is assured. The six acres of onions 
will produce about 3000 bushels, and at the 
average price of $1 a bushel, we can easily 
calculate that income. Among the crops 
raised are several acres of rye. This is 
done, not for the grain, but for the straw, 
which is used for making matting to pro¬ 
tect the frames during the most inclement 
and frosty weather of winter. A night 
watchman makes these mats during the 
vigils of the night. In the same building 
where he operates are repair shops of va¬ 
rious kinds, where blacksmith, carpenter 
and other work is done. 
In addition to raising vegetables in such 
large quantities, vegetable seeds of all kinds 
are cultivated, the proprietor having, in 
addition to his market stalls, an extensive 
seed store in Boston. To raise seed he 
selects the healthiest and best of the plants 
of various kinds, and carefully cultivates 
them to that end. The result is that he 
can boast—and he is proud of it—that in 
no single case has he had complaint from 
patrons of failure of his seed to grow. 
This year he is growing cauliflower seed, 
which has heretofore been regarded as a 
most difficult thing to accomplish in this 
climate, the seed heretofore used being 
imported from Europe. The price is about 
fifty dollars per pound, and as high as six¬ 
ty dollars per pound has been paid. Cauli¬ 
flower seed is sown in hot-house in Decem¬ 
ber, and the plant matures in April, and 
is marketed. Those intended for open air 
culture are sown later, and set out. 
In addition to supplying vegetables to the 
market for consumption, quite a large 
business is done in plants, such as tomato, 
cabbage, cauliflower, egg and other kitchen 
garden plants, which are supplied in large 
quantities, and sold in Boston, as well as at 
the gardens. Taken altogether, the busi¬ 
ness is a wonderful one, and full of inter¬ 
esting details of which no mere newspa¬ 
per article could pretend to give more than 
an outline. 
The proprieter of this farm—which, 
though of one hundred acres in extent, 
represents through its crops really more 
than two hundred acres of highly cultiva¬ 
ted land—is still a young man, though he 
has built up the business he has to-day, 
from the smallest beginnings. He has 
filled all grades in the business, and knows 
every branch of it thoroughly. He is what 
may be called a practical, rather than a 
scientific farmer or gardener—that is, his 
practice keeps pace, or rather goes ahead of 
his theory. He is all the time thinking out 
and working out improvements in cultiva¬ 
tion and appliances therefor. He goes to 
bed at nine o’clock in the evening, and is 
up at five in the morning, looking after his 
