PISCUSSIOX ON MARKET-GARDENING. 35 



I thank you, gentlemen, for the kind attention with which 

 you have listened to my very imperfect attempt to explain 

 the market-gardener's work, and hope you will hear from 

 some of the many more experienced and better gardeners 

 whom I see around me. 



The Chaieima^. Gentlemen, the subject is open for dis- 

 cussion. We shall be glad to hear from any one. 



IMr. Geoege Hjll of Arlington. I think Mr. Philbrick 

 has been over most of the ground very successfully : I don't 

 know that I can add any thing. He has been very successful 

 in his forcing-houses. He has got up something new, alto- 

 gether different from any thing we have had in the way of 

 hot-beds. I think he has made a great improvement in that 

 direction. I should like to have him go on and explain 

 further in regard to the construction and management of liis 

 green-house, rather than say any thing myself. As for market- 

 gardening, I think the chairman is the man to speak on that 

 subject. He is the most successful of any man in the 

 county. 



i\Ir. Flint. If Mr. Pierce would state to the audience 

 what crops are most salable, most desirable to raise, for the 

 Boston market, and some facts in regard to the best methods 

 of raising those crops, I am sure it would be very instructive 

 and interesting to a great many here who are not so well 

 posted in that particular department of activity as he is. 



Rev. Mr. SoSHTh. I would say that I visited Mr. Pierce's 

 farm a few days ago, and found him in his house for preserv- 

 ing spinach and squashes ; and I would suggest that he tell 

 us something about that. 



Mr. Pierce. Mr. Philbrick has explained all those tilings. 

 Almost every one I know here has a spinach and squash house 

 of his own. As far as the question as to what crops are most 

 sought for in the market is concerned, they vary with me 

 every year. Some years I do very well : but, if I do excep- 

 tionally well one year, it is more than probable that the next 

 year that crop will not pay ; too many will go into it. My 

 practice is to raise certain kinds of vegetables, and keep it up 

 year after year : sometimes they sell well, sometimes they do 

 viot. I think there is very little money to be made in raising 

 early cabbages, and putting on fifteen or twenty cords of 



