SUCCESS IN MARKET GARDENING 



ordinarily, be expected to be about as follows: 

 say for the first crop, $2.50; for the second, $2.00; 

 and the third, $1.50; making 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|c. 

 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 1st. 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. 



GARDENING IN HOT-HOUSES 



Sixty years ago very little growing was done 

 under glass; and if any one had as many as one 

 hundred sash he was considered quite an extensive 

 market gardener. But when early vegetables 

 began to be grown in the South and sent into our 



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