The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1877-07-04
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All wanting Fruit Farms, especial adj
apted to the growth of the Vine, where it
is an established success and pays largo
profit. The land is also adapted to the
growth of Peaches, Pears, Apples and
small fruits; also Grain, Grass and, Veg
etables.
Many hundred of excellent Vinegar s,
Orchards and Farms, can now he seen.
The location is only "a miles south pf.
Philadelphia, by Railroad, in mild, do
lightful climate, and at the very doors of
the New York and Philadelphia Markets.
Another Railroad runs direct to New
York.
The place is already large, successful
and prosperous. Churches, Schools, and
other privileges are already established.
Also, manufactures of Shoes, Clothing,
Glass, Straw Goods, and other things, at
which different members of family can
procure employment
1t has been n health resort for some
years past for people suffering from pull
monary affections, Catarrh, Ague, and de-
bility; many thousands have entirely re-
covered.
A new brick hotel has Just been COM
pleted, 100 feet front, with back buildings,
four stories high, including French roof,
and all modern improvements for the ac-
| commOdation of visitors.
Price of Farm Land $500 per acre.
payable instrTments, within the period. of
four years. In this climate. planted out
to vines, 20 acres of land will count fully
as much as 100 acres further north.
Persons unacquainted with fruit grow.
ing can become familiar with it in short
time on account of surroundings.
Five acre, one acre, and town lots, In
the towns of Landisville and Vinelandr
also for sale.
Whilst visiting the Centennial Exhibi-
ton, Vineland can be visited at small ex-
pense.
A paper containing full information,
will be sent upon application to CHRLES
X. LANDIS, Vineland, N. j., free Of cost.
The following is an extract from de~
scription lof Vineland, published in tho
New York Tribune, by the well-known
| Agriculturist, Solon Robinson:
All the farmers were of the ''woll 10 do :
Sort and some of them, who have turned
their attention to fruits and market gard
] ening, have grown rich- Tho soil is loans
| varying from sandy to clayey, and surface
| gently undulating, intersected with small
| streams and occasional wet meadows. in
| which deposits of peat or muck are storedy
| sufficient to fertilize the whole upland sur
| face, after it has been exhausted of is
natural fertility.
| It is certainly one of the most extensive
fertile tracts, in an almost level position,
and suitable condition for pleasant farln-
| ing, that we know of this side of the West-
| ern pTaiTies. We found some of tho old
est farms apparently iHst as proftahIF
| productive as when first cleared of fores
| fifty or a hundred years ago.
| The geOlOgist would soon discover
cause of this continued fertility.
| whole country is a marine deposit an
| through the soil we found evidence
| calcareous substances, generally in tue
| form of indurated calCareOus mari, Show
| ing many distinct forms of ancient Shells
of the tertiary formation; ana this maris
| substance is scattered all through the SOD
in very comminuted form, and in tba
exact condition most easily assimmilatasi
cultivate. ea