SUCCESS IN MARKET GARDENING 



of course, are variable from season to season. 

 Crops will sometimes fail utterly and again 

 sometimes succeed astonishingly for no visible 

 reason in either case. Manure effects, especially 

 on soils naturally poor, are apt to be very difficult 

 of prediction or subsequent analysis: the only 

 safe general maxim being the common-sense rule, 

 to feed the plants abundantly and let them find 

 and take what they require. 



The conditions of greenhouse and hot-bed 

 culture are more definitely known, and can be more 

 exactly fulfilled, than those of open culture, for 

 obvious reasons. It is in these forms of vege- 

 table-growing that the largest recent advances 

 have been made, and in which the most impor- 

 tant future improvements seem likely to be 

 developed. 



As regards choice and rare winter-products of 

 forcing-houses, the market demand, though 

 steadily increasing, is but small as yet. Those 

 who have access to the larger markets are, of 

 course, comparatively far better enabled to make 

 suitable disposal of such products. Others will 

 be limited, for the present, to producing the more 

 common kinds, such as lettuce, dandelion and 



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