MARKET GARDENING. 9 



its destination and pay largely, l)ut the loss on otlier 

 shipments which may arrive at destination heated and 

 decayed will more than absorb previous profits. 



Much, however, depends on the season, as, for ex- 

 ample, a shipment from Florida to the North during 

 the winter months will, if not frozen in transit, carry 

 twice as long as in spring or autumn, and three times as 

 long as in summer. Hence it will be seen that not only 

 must there exist certain conditions as respects facility 

 for shipment, but the adoption of the locality, with ref- 

 erence to distance from market, must be carefully con- 

 sidered, before deciding as to the crops to be grown. 



With such a location as Burlington county, New Jer- 

 sey, where the writer has a farm, and where have congre- 

 gated so vast a number of ''truckers," as they are pop- 

 ularly called, and small fruit growers, attracted by the 

 light kindly soils, admitting of tillage early in the 

 spring, and the markets of New York and Philadelphia 

 in close proximity, where gathering of perishable vege- 

 tables and picking of fruit may be pursued till sunset, 

 and the next morning find them in market, everything 

 which the climate admits may be successfully produced. 

 Still further south, as in the vicinity of Norfolk, Wil- 

 mington and Savannah, other cultivators are pursuing 

 market gardening on a larger scale, and, although the 

 transportation is more expensive and of longer duration, 

 these points are still within easy reach of market, while 

 the earlier season in which crops are produced is a 

 compensation for increased expenses. It may not be 

 fully realized by all persons into wiiose hands this work 

 may fall, that the time or season in which a vegetable 

 delicacy or choice fruit is placed in market has an 

 important influence on the price. In our large commer- 

 cial and manufacturing cities where wealth has concen- 

 trated, and where abound families who live regardless 

 of expenditures, fabulous prices are freely paid for vege- 

 tables and fruits to please the palate or adorn the table. 



