GARDENING FOR MARKET. 



ground, with nearly all their leaves, and, if they are to be 

 shipped, are packed in barrels or crockery-crates. They 

 will stand a good deal of rough treatment. 



Prices of Early Vegetables. On this subject but little 

 can be said that will be a criterion for different localities, ex- 

 cept that in nearly all of the smaller towns they sell for from 

 50 to 100 per cent, above the New York quotations. The 

 cause of this anomalous condition is that these towns are 

 nearly always supplied with early vegetables from the larger 

 cities. 



Probably the following may be taken as a fair average of 

 prices in towns of from 10,000 to 50,000 inhabitants, during 

 a series of years : 



Cabbages, 8 cents each. 



Onions (rare-ripes), 50 cents per dozen Isfinches of five 

 each. 



Beets, 75 cents per dozen bunches of five each. 



Radishes, 30 cents per dozen bunches of about ten each. 



Spinach, $1.50 per barrel. 



Second Crops. -We have now cleared all of the land ex- 

 cept that which is occupied by the parsnips. This produces 

 but one crop during the season, and we have not very much 

 more to expect from the use of the land. Our profit must 

 have come mainly from the early crops. Still, enough may 

 be expected to make a fair return for the labor of cultivation, 

 and for the use of the land and manure, and the land needs 



to be cultivated for its own sake. The gardeners about the 



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