Success in Market Gardening. 



CHAPTER I. 



Introductory Remarks — Location* and Soils — 

 Land Drainage — Irrigation of Crops. 



MARKET GARDENING as a business has 

 some peculiar features in which it ditlers from 

 other branches of agriculture. Many people 

 have an impression that the growing of vegetables for 

 market is like any ordinan- farming, and are disposed 

 to believe that any person who can plough, hoe, and 

 dig can grow one crop as well as another. Such people 

 would find themselves sadly mistaken if they should 

 undertake the business themselves and actually attempt 

 to carry it on equipped with only a general knowledge 

 of ordinary farm work. 



Market gardening is made up of details : and, while 

 each separate step mav be easy of master}' by those 

 who have a natural taste for the business, the whole 

 art and a full comprehension of it can be acquired 

 only by actual experience in the work and thorough 

 practical acquaintance with all the minor points. 



Therefore we desire every one to understand at the 

 outset that a book on the subject, no matter how 

 complete, can be only a helper, and a partial guide 



