GARDENING FOR PROFIT, 



In the Market and Family 

 BY PETER HENDERSON. 



This is the first work on Market Gardening ever published in this 

 country. Its author is well known as a market gardener of eighteen 

 years' successful experience. In this work he has recorded this 

 experience, and given, without reservation, the methods necessary 

 to the profitable culture of the commercial or 



It is a work for which there has long been a demand, and one 

 which will commend itself, not only to those who grow vegetables 

 for sale, but to the cultivator of the 



FAMILY GARDEN, 



to whom it presents methods quite different from the old ones gen- 

 erally practiced. It is an ORIGINAL AND PURELY AMERICAN work, and 

 not made up, as books on gardening too often are, by quotations 

 from foreign authors. 



Every thing is made perfectly plain, and the subject treated in all 

 its details, from the selection of the soil to preparing the products 

 for market. 



CONTENTS. 



Men fitted for the Business of Gardening. 



The Amount of Capital Required, and 



"Working Force per Acre. 



Profits of Market Gardening. 



Location, Situation, and Laying Out. 



Soils, Drainage, and Preparation. 



Manures, Implements. 



Uses and Management of Cold Frames. 



Formation and Management of Hot-bed*. 



Forcing Pits or Green-houses. 



Seeds and Seed Baising. 



How, When, and Where to Sow Seeds. 



Transplanting, Insects. 



Packing of Vegetables for Shipping. 



Preservation of Vegetables in "Winter. 



Vegetables, their Varieties and Cultivation. 



In the last chapter, the most valuable kinds are described, and 

 the culture proper to each is given in detail. 



Sent post-paid, prico $I.5O. 

 OBANGE JTJDD & CO., 245 Broadway, New-York. 



