Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1853-07-28
"a The following article deserves an attentive

SS Inc IoioWlng article deserves an attentive
perusal by our agricultural friends
WHAT TWO ACRES CAN Do.-The twenty sixth
meeting of the Germantown (near Philadelphia
Farmers Club was held at the house of Philip r.
Freas, on the 23d of November. He is the editor
of the Germantown Telegraph, warm and active
friend of agriculture, horticulture, &C.. and the
originator of the club. Though his whole plot
of ground comprises less than two acres and
half, vet he manages to produce upon it. in per-
lection, little of everything. Those who are
signing for more land will do well to read his
statement carefully, and inquire whether it would
not be wiser to cultivate their present acres bet
ter than to add to their number. The reporter at
the meeting states that during the present year
there were cut two tons aud quarter, of prime
hay; there were patches of turnips, carrots, par
ships. beets, cabbages (three kinds, onions peas
frejole, and half dozen other kinds of beans';
satisfy, lettuce okra, corn (Stowell's sugar and
Adams potatoes, pumpkins (three varieties
squashes and tomatoes, egg-plants, asparagus in
abundance, celery (of splendid quality,) together
with every other kind of vegetable to be found in
the catalogue. His fruits consist of melons, six
kinds of cherries, five kinds of plumbs, peaches;
twenty eight varieties o! select pears; twelve va
rietes of apples; red, white, and black currants,
gooseberries, blackberries, and four varieties of
raspberrles, grapes, &c.
In the garden and mansion yard, there was
very choice collection of flowers, among them
many select roses and rare vines The ornamen-
tai trees consist of five varieties of the fir; the
Japonica cryplomeria, the Deodar CEDAR the Irish
yew, and the American arbor vitae; the European
linden, the sugar and silver naples, the English
and mountain ash, &c. In addition to these,
there was a number of beautiful Polish fowls
black white, and spanged-and pea fowls in the
barn-Yard; ish-pond in the garden, and large
number of choice fancy pigeons at the house. In
all this there is an excellent taste displayed We
noticed that the house and offices were lighted
with gas, warmed with a heater, and supplied
with water from the public works. Baths, hot
and cold, have for years been supplied by reser-
voir on an elevated back building, holding some
1900 gallons which has also furnished pure soft
rain water for variou, parts of the building
In the garden is small greenhouse, excavated
in the ground, say to the depth of three OF four
feet, framed up at the sides, raised a couple of
feet above ground, and covered with glass. In
this enclosure or pit, the usual shelves are ar.
ranged to receive the pots; and we are assured by
Major Freas that it is the best possible provision
for flowers and almost every description of plants
in winter. Roses, particularly flourish in much
greater perfection. During the whole of the last
unusually severe winter, but single delicate,
night-booming jessamine was at all injured by
the frost. This green house requires no artificial
heat In the hot-beds we found cucmbers and
caulifowers up, lettuce heading, and spring rad
lshes full grown. We may truly say, in regard
to the Telegraph Farm, that it is farm in
immature; but IN comfort, convenience and taste,
without any large pretension to more costly ele-
gence, 1t is a pattern plantation" and would in
the full growing season, afford compensation for
visit from any of cur ponderous farmers In
word, 1t is, in the strict sense of the word A
me.-PeekSkaU Repatb