PART III. 

 THE EARLY FORCING OF VEGETABLES. 



CHAPTER I. 



FORCING THE POTATO. 



IT is high time for us Englishmen to rouse ourselves 

 to more energy, and to try and meet the competing 

 foreigner. Now that glass is so cheap, and the cost of 

 construction considerably lessened by glazing without 

 putty, which any man can do, let those who have to 

 get their living by growing early and late market stuff 

 consider whether they can or cannot fairly compete . 

 with the Frenchman, Some men are doing this al- 

 ready, but why not all ? I think it is very unfair to 

 allow the foreigner to supply our markets when we 

 could, by a little perseverance, do all that is wanted. 

 If early Potatoes will pay them to send here, why will 

 it not pay us to grow them, and get them to market as 

 soon as they do ? Of course I know that some little 

 expense at the outset is necessary, but then this is but 

 once. I am now going to show that early Potatoes (as 

 early as those imported) can be as easily grown, and 

 pay as well, as anything else. 



