PREFACE 



mercial vegetable culture in the Eastern United 

 States. With his practices and ideals I am nat- 

 urally familiar, having been associated with him 

 in the actual business of growing for some years 

 prior to his death. 



Like my father, I have been brought up in the 

 business of market gardening, and can say as he 

 said, "my father followed it before me." No 

 market garden in New England has, at any time, 

 employed a larger capital or marketed a larger 

 annual product than does our establishment. 



The extent of the establishment and operations 

 at Arlington has attracted general public notice. 

 Men who have already embarked in the business, 

 and have themselves been more or less success- 

 ful in it, will find in this book the means of com- 

 paring their own methods with ours. Young 

 men who are about to choose their vocation, 

 and who have heard of the increasing extent and 

 importance of this business of vegetable grow- 

 ing, will find here facts collected from a long 

 experience, which I, think, can hardly fail to be 

 valuable. 



A reasonable man will estimate the worth of 

 this book by what it contains not criticising 



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