SUCCESS IN MARKET GARDENING 



Squashes are sold by weight, with the exception 

 of the summer varieties. These are sold by the 

 dozen. The price obtained is very variable. 

 None of the varieties are accounted a paying crop 

 unless they bring at least fifteen dollars per ton. 



When picking for storing great care should be 

 taken not to bruise them or break off the stems. 

 They are brought from the fields in wagons and 

 put in piles, to remain until quite dry, and then 

 stored in an even temperature as near 50 degrees 

 as possible. 



THE TOMATO (Lycopersicum esculentum) holds a 

 high place amongst vegetables in general estima- 

 tion, both for its use in a fresh state, and for 

 canning and manufacturing into catsup ; so that its 

 extended and still increasing cultivation is a subject 

 peculiarly interesting to market gardeners of the 

 country. Within the past twenty years, the tomato, 

 from an almost unknown and little-considered 

 product of a few small gardens, has grown into 

 popular favour to such an extent that the area of its 

 cultivation is now reckoned in thousands of acres, 

 and will doubtless continue to be further enlarged 

 as population increases; especially about its chief 

 centres and near the canning establishments. 



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