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AGRICULTURE FOR BEGINNERS 



so-called " fine arts," that is, arts that require taste, 

 education, and refinement. The landscape gardener forms 

 pictures in nature just as the artist makes them on canvas, 

 but uses natural objects in his pictures instead of paint 

 and canvas. 



Market Gardening. Formerly market gardening was 

 done on small tracts of land in the immediate vicinity of 



FIG. 217. STRAWBERRY-GROWING is AN ART 

 Copyright, 1903, Doubleday, Page & Co. 



large cities, where supplies of stable manure could be used 

 from the city stables. But, with the great increase in 

 the population of the cities, these small areas could no 

 longer supply the demands, and the introduction of com- 

 mercial fertilizers and the building of railroads enabled 

 gardeners at great distances from city markets to grow and 

 ship their products. Hence now the markets, even in 



