PREFACE. 



Ix view of the rapid changes and improvements 

 in varieties and modes of culture which continually 

 appear, it must be evident that the practical rules of 

 Market Gardening need to be frequently revised and 

 brought down to date. And any Manual on this 

 subject, to be of practical value to the reader, must 

 include many important directions not hitherto found 

 in works of tliis class. No treatise within our knowl- 

 edge has appeared during the last nine years that has 

 aimed at covering the field with any approach to com- 

 pleteness; and, moreover, so far as we are aware no 

 book has ever been written that is fully adapted to the 

 latitude of New England. \ 



I have been brought up in the business of Market 

 Gardening- My father followed it before me, and, 

 being led to it both by circumstances and inclination, 

 I naturally took it up. I must have had a strong 

 predilection for the work or I should not have followed 

 it, as I have, continuously until now. I can now point 



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