Five Acres Too Much: A Truthful Elucidation of the Attractions of the Country, and a Careful Consideration of the Question of Profit and Loss as Involved in Amateur Farming, with Much Valuable Advice and Instruction to Those about Purchasing Large Or Small Places in the Rural Districts |
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Page x
... early vegetables , and its luscious fruits , is most at- tractive ; and where a residence can be obtained which combines all these luxuries with pure air , and no chills and fever , and which is not too X INTRODUCTION .
... early vegetables , and its luscious fruits , is most at- tractive ; and where a residence can be obtained which combines all these luxuries with pure air , and no chills and fever , and which is not too X INTRODUCTION .
Page xii
... early peas are combined with plank side - walks . This un- equaled concentration of attractions can be reached in thirty minutes from either the upper or lower part of the city - of course New York city is meant , as no one need leave ...
... early peas are combined with plank side - walks . This un- equaled concentration of attractions can be reached in thirty minutes from either the upper or lower part of the city - of course New York city is meant , as no one need leave ...
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... earliest and best of their kinds ; there should be a magnificent bed of asparagus - that king of the kitchen garden - a dozen long rows of strawberries , with fruit as luscious as a young girl's lips ; Bartlett pears , early peas ...
... earliest and best of their kinds ; there should be a magnificent bed of asparagus - that king of the kitchen garden - a dozen long rows of strawberries , with fruit as luscious as a young girl's lips ; Bartlett pears , early peas ...
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... early in winter when I made up my mind finally to erect a country house on the Flushing five acres . Plans , and size , and arrangements were in the vague and misty future ; for months the ground could not be broken to build the founda ...
... early in winter when I made up my mind finally to erect a country house on the Flushing five acres . Plans , and size , and arrangements were in the vague and misty future ; for months the ground could not be broken to build the founda ...
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... early one morning in June , to lead her eight miles to her future home at Flushing . Neither himself nor the cow was heard of again till late that night , when , with startled coun- tenance , he related his adventures to my friend Wee ...
... early one morning in June , to lead her eight miles to her future home at Flushing . Neither himself nor the cow was heard of again till late that night , when , with startled coun- tenance , he related his adventures to my friend Wee ...
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