SUCCESS IN MARKET GARDENING 



Boston Market is the oldest of all, and when 

 properly grown is still best of all. It is very 

 liable to blight unless grown on moist land; it 

 will keep longest of any, but all depends on it 

 being grown well. 



For profit, the Paris Golden and Pascal will do 

 best. The Pascal can be grown six inches apart 

 in the row, three to four feet between rows and 

 Boston Market the same, by the latest practice. 



The market now demands a bunch of solid 

 hearts ; this is made by putting two or three together. 

 Preparing the celery for market is laborious 

 and expensive the most expensive stage through 

 which it passes. Every separate root has to be 

 dug, trimmed, knifed, washed, and packed. Some 

 times two or even three roots are required to make 

 a bunch equivalent to one good-sized root. It is 

 usually packed in boxes, twelve to eighteen in each. 

 It cannot be grown (counting every root) for less 

 than two cents per root, and leave any profit to 

 the grower. It is sold by market gardeners at 

 wholesale, by the box of one or one and a half 

 dozen, the price ranging from 75 cents per dozen 

 to $3.00 for the late winter market. 



CHICORY (Cichorium Intybus) is generally 

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