Gathermg the Crops. 67 



glass each season. In regard to the amount of prod- 

 uce that can be taken oil, per sash, each season, of 

 course much depends on skilful management ; but if 

 the beds are properly attended to (where three crops 

 are grown) the results might, ordinarily, be expected 

 to be about as follows: say for the first crop, $2.50 ; 

 for the second crop, $2.00; and the third, $1.50; mak- 

 ing a total of $6.00 per sash. These figures are of 

 course often exceeded, and even doubled ; but we are 

 now giving estimates of a result as near an average as 

 possible. 



The first crop embraced in the foregoing estimate 

 would be lettuce, four dozen to each sash, at 62 ^wc. 

 per dozen. The next, either lettuce or radishes ; the 

 third, cucumbers, which would be put under the glass 

 about the first of April and begin to bear June ist. 

 The latter crop varies in price according to the season, 

 some years averaging as high as three dollars per sash; 

 but for a large quantity, a cash return amounting to a 

 dollar and a half per sash would be considered by 

 most growers as reasonably good- 



Harvesting or Gathering the Crops. 



In market gardening the term "harvest" cannot be 

 applied as it was in olden times to the gathering of 

 the grain and other crops in the fall of the year. Un- 

 der modern usages there is no real season of harvest- 

 ing, but, on the contrary, the ''seed-time and harvest " 

 seasons, both of them, extend the whole year round. 



Much experience is required to enable one to know 

 just when to harvest market-garden crops, and this 



