CHAPTER XIII 



VEGETABLE-GROWING 



Market-gardening and truck-farming. 

 Soils for vegetables. 

 Kinds of vegetable crops. 

 The farm-garden. 



Soils for the farm-garden. 



Range of crops. 



Enriching the soil. 



Tools for farm-gardening. 

 Planting-table for vegetables. 



EVERY home uses vegetables. These vegetables are grown 

 by some person, somewhere. To grow them requires skill, a 

 well equipped establishment, the proper soil and location, 

 knowledge of varieties, ability to control insects and diseases, 

 understanding of the markets and what the people want. In 

 former time, the vegetables were grown at home. Now many 

 or most of them, are produced by specialists, who make the 

 growing of them a business. Some of them are raised in fields 

 under glass. The markets are supplied by trutk-farmers and 

 market-gardeners, as explained in the third paragraph ; yet 

 it is as important as ever that every person having land grow 

 as many of his own vegetables as possible. 



A wholesale produce market, about two or three o'clock in 

 the morning, is a remarkable sight. There are products in 

 great variety and immense quantities ; gardeners with their 

 loads ; commission men displaying the produce ; buyers eager 

 for the best bargains ; activity everywhere. Usually by five 

 o'clock the market is empty, the produce gone to the shops 

 where it will be sold to families ; and the ordinary early riser 



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