GARDENING FOR PROFIT. 



CHAPTER I. 



THE MEN FITTED FOR THE BUSINESS OF 

 GARDENING. 



Although we shall here show the business of garden- 

 ing to be a profitable one, let no man deceive himself by 

 supposing that these profits are attainable without steady 

 personal application. 



Having been long known as extensively engaged in the 

 business, I am applied to by scores every season, asking 

 how they can make their lands available for garden 

 purposes. The majority of these are city merchants, who 

 for investment, or in anticipation of a rural retreat in the 

 autumn of their days, have purchased a country place, 

 and in the mean time they wish to make it pay ; they have 

 read or heard that market gardening is profitable, and they 

 think it an easy matter to hire a gardener to work the place, 

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