PART. Sit: 
THE EARLY FORCING OF VEGETABLES. 
CHAPTER I. 
FORCING THE POTATO. 
It is high time for us Englishmen to rouse ourselves 
to more energy, and to try and meet the competing 
foreigner. Now that glass is so cheap, and the cost of 
construction considerably lessened by glazing without 
putty, which any man can do, let those who have to 
get their living by growing early and late market stuff 
consider whether they can or cannot fairly compete 
with the Frenchman. Some men are doing this al- 
ready, but why not all? I think it is very unfair to 
allow the foreigner to supply our markets when we 
could, by a little perseverance, do all that is wanted. 
If early Potatoes will pay them to send here, why will 
it not pay us to grow them, and get them to market as 
soon as they do? Of course I know that some little 
expense at the outset is necessary, but then this is but 
once. I am now going to show that early Potatoes (as 
early as those imported) can be as easily grown, and 
pay as well, as anything else. 
