86 BOAKD OF AGRICULTURE. [Pub. Doc. 



MARKET GARDENING. 



BY H. R. KINNEY, WORCESTER. 



Before commencing to write on this sul^ject, I looked over 

 the reports of this Board, and found that market gardening 

 and vegetable growing had been considered at length by sev- 

 eral of the foremost growers and writers ; and, while the 

 conditions are continually changing, I think it would be 

 time well spent for those interested in market gardening, to 

 look over the reports for the last thirty years, at least, and I 

 would call special attention to lectures and discussions as 

 follows : — 



Report for 1876-77, lecture by B. P. Ware. This lecture 

 is very full of useful suggestions in preparing ground and in 

 growint; the more common farm vegetables. 



Report for 1877-78, essay by W. D. Philbrick, on " Mar- 

 ket gardening." Tliis is accompanied by several drawings 

 of interest to those who have never spent nmch time about 

 the large market gardens ; it also gives many details of 

 particular interest to the smaller gardeners. 



Report for 1888 contains considerable very interesting 

 reading for the gardener. There is a lecture by A. H. 

 Smith, who considers gardening in the Connecticut valley ; 

 and a paper by W. W. Rawson, who considers the subject 

 from the point of the "Market gardener" proper. j\Ir. 

 Rawson also has a lecture in this report on irrigation. 



Report for 1889 contains a lecture by the late Peter Hen- 

 derson, on " Market gardening as a business," and also many 

 things of interest not only to the market gardener but to all 

 who cultivate a garden. 



It is much easier to speak on general lines, and look at 

 our successes, and that would probably be acceptable to the 

 majority of those present ; but there may be some here who 

 would like to get a new idea to carry home with them. 



