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The last, and one of the most important considerations for good 

 crops in any garden is that all weeds should be exterminated as soon 

 as they appear. They are to a garden what anarchists are to en- 

 lightened society, and neither should be suffered to exist, but be 

 eradicated — exterminated upon first appearance. 



MARKET GARDENING. 



In the immediate vicinity of cities and large towns, the cultivation 

 of vegetables and small fruits for the daily supply of the market has 

 become one of the large industries, and in our own country employs a 

 large army of people of both sexes In the cultivation of vegetables 

 for market, the land should be laid out, and the rows such distance 

 apart as admit of the largest part of the work to be done by horse cul- 

 tivators; the longer the rows when so laid out, the more economical 

 the cultivation of the crop. In this class of gardening, the owner if 

 well versed in his business, should and will arrange for the earliest 

 vegetables that can be grown, when followed by others throughout 

 the season, and of some kinds, several crops may be raised on the same 

 land. It will be of great advantage, and increase profit to the owner, 

 to start many kinds of vegetables in hot beds, which are not expensive, 

 and even raise them in such beds for market, before they can be grown 

 in the open air. 



Of the particular kinds of vegetables to cultivate for market, the 

 intelligent gardener well understands, and will arrange to have them, 

 or some of them for all seasons, and the small fruits in their season, 

 strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, currants, etc., all of which 

 find a ready market in their season, at good prices. 



The best method of culdvating any one of the garden vegetables, or 

 small fruits, would require an entire essay, and many have been writ- 

 ten, and I have no doubt been read by every person in the audiejice, 

 and I omit anything further on the subject. * 



FARMERS GARDENS. 



I am aware that few farmers plant and cultivate such gardens, as 

 they would find of great benefit and profit in cultivating, and the oft 

 assigned reason is, other and more important farm work, want of 

 time, etc. ; when garden work is necessary to be done, such are not 

 valid reasons. The preparation of a garden plat, plowing, manuring, 

 etc., will require but little time, and when seeds are provided, and on 

 hand, either raised or procured from the seedman, before the com- 



