. Success with small fruits . well lowered to the mouth of the drain. The stubborn acre was nowunder my thumb, and I have kept it there ever since. During the pastsummer, I had upon its wettest and stiffest portion two beds of Jucundastrawberries that yielded at the rate of one hundred and ninety bushels tothe acre. The Jucunda strawberry is especially adapted to heavy landrequiring drainage, and I think an enterprising man in the vicinity ofNew-York might so unite them as to make a fortune. The hole wasfilled with stones and now forms a part of my garden, and the canalanswers for a road-bed a
. Success with small fruits . well lowered to the mouth of the drain. The stubborn acre was nowunder my thumb, and I have kept it there ever since. During the pastsummer, I had upon its wettest and stiffest portion two beds of Jucundastrawberries that yielded at the rate of one hundred and ninety bushels tothe acre. The Jucunda strawberry is especially adapted to heavy landrequiring drainage, and I think an enterprising man in the vicinity ofNew-York might so unite them as to make a fortune. The hole wasfilled with stones and now forms a part of my garden, and the canalanswers for a road-bed as at first intended. In the fortuitous well I haveplaced a force-pump, around which are grown and watered my pottedplants. The theory of carrying drains into gravel does hold water, andsometimes holes can be dug at a slight expense, that practically have nobottom. I have no doubt that in this instance tile would have beenbetter and cheaper than the small stone drains that I have described. Preparatioji of Soil by Drainage. 67. Men Ditching.—Jucunda Strawberry. 68 Success with Small Frtiits. In the rear of my place there was a third drainage problem verydifferent from either of the other two. My farm runs back to the rise ofthe mountain, whose edge it skirts for some distance. It thus receivesat times much surface water. At the foot of the mountain-slope, thereare about three acres of low alluvial soil that Avas formerly covered witha coarse, useless herbage of the swamp. Between the meadow and theslope of the mountain, the town built a boulevard (marked I I onthe map), practically cribbing an acre or two of land. Ahab, whoneeded Naboths vineyard for public purposes, is the spiritual father of all town boards. At the extreme end of the farm, and just beyond the alluvialground, was the channel of a brook (marked J). Its stony bed, throughwhich trickled a rill, had a very innocent aspect on the October daywhen we looked the farm over and decided upon its purchase. Therill ran a
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