GEEENHOUSE CONSTRUCTION AND MANAGEMENT. 



BY PKOF. S. T. MAYNARD, FOKMEKLY PROFESSOR OF HORTICULTURE AT 

 THE MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE. 



The increased demand for vegetables out of their natural 

 season and cut flowers during the winter months has resulted 

 in the building of glass structm'es for their growth in almost 

 every city and large town in New England. Vegetable 

 growing under glass and growing cut flowers are industries 

 that can well be carried on in connection with many other 

 lines of agricultiu-e and horticulture, as they furnish employ- 

 ment during the winter months, when there is little that can 

 be profitably done out of doors ; and in many country towns 

 we find examples of successful and profitable enterprises in 

 growing lettuce, cucumbers, tomatoes, carnations, roses, 

 etc. 



At first thought it seems as if this success came to the 

 young men who undertake such enterprises without much 

 eflbrt, and at the first trial ; but when we investigate more 

 fully we find many failures before success crowned theu* 

 eflbrts, and we learn that the details of the business can 

 only be mastered so as to insure success in the same way as 

 is required in any other kind of business, ^.e., by continued 

 practice. Many failures are often made before one succeeds, 

 and yet an}'^ young man or woman with a love for plants 

 and flowers who will make a careful study of the work as it 

 is conducted by the successful greenhouse men, of whom 

 there are so many examples in Massachusetts, with a little 

 capital and a determination to succeed, will have no serious 

 difiiculty in mastering the business in two or three years. 

 They will find, however, that they will be able to learn 

 something each year if they continue in the business, even 

 for a lifetime. 



