MARKET GARDENING. 3 



In addition to the above there were shipped from 

 the same city almost 1,000,000 watermelons. And yet 

 it was considered a poor year. 



From the city of Mobile, in the next year, the 

 shipments were : 



Crates of cabbage 58,309 • 



Boxes of beans 46,178 



Boxes of peas 1,278 



Boxes of tomatoes 2,695 



Barrels of potatoes 78,924 



Other market garden products 8458,000 



The Philadelphia district, the Central district, and 

 the South Atlantic district are only three of twelve dis- 

 tricts as laid out by the Census Bureau, that of Califor- 

 nia giving an annual production of over $4,000,000, and 

 yet there is room for the productions of all, amounting 

 to $76,000,000, and no doubt in a few years that sum 

 will be doubled, for everything soon doubles in this land 

 of phenomenal progress. 



The unprecedented development in the Carolinas 

 and Gulf States of the business of growing vegetables 

 for autumn and winter shipment to the cities of the 

 North, to be from those active centers more widely dis- 

 tributed among the densely populated districts of the 

 Middle, Western and New England States, has been one 

 of the surprises in modern agriculture. 



Formerly esculent vegetables could be divided into 

 classes, and a period named coyering the time of sale of 

 each class — as, for example, peas were only offered dur- 

 ing May, June and July, and so with cucumbers, toma- 

 toes, egg plants and beans, they all had their seasons, 

 and, when they were past, only those people who had 

 greenhouses could expect more until the return of the 

 corresponding season the following year, but now tliat is 

 a condition of the past, for Georgia and Florida, with 

 their evergreen productiveness, have been able to revolu- 

 tionize the old conditions, by sending to the northern 



