3rd March, A. D. 1904. 



ESSAY 



BY ' 



M. SULLIVAN, Revere, Mass. 

 Theme:— The Ideal New England Market Garden. 



The modern market gardener is a man of ideas; the successful 

 market gardener is always a man of practical ideas; and those 

 ideas are studied as a problem beyond the experimental stage, 

 and then become a standartl beyond question as the best to 

 adopt. 



The New England climate, so variable and so liable to sudden 

 changes, is a local study of which the market gardener should 

 have a fair knowledge. He must necessarily understand, not 

 only the outside climatic changes, with which he is at all times 

 contending, but he must also understand how to create them 

 artificially under glass, in order to produce his crops. The 

 temperature required to grow crops of lettuce, under glass, 

 differs materially from the temperature required to grow the 

 cucumber. So he becomes a weather scientist, and studies 

 temperature both under glass, and in the open. There is no 

 other business which requires preparation more than market 

 gardening. All operations must be thought out, and worked 

 in advance. So preparation is one of the essentials to success. 

 The four seasons, then, he should understand, and are the 

 keynote to the market gardener's success. 



All over New England are locations where the soil and 

 climatic conditions, markets near by, or cheap transportation 

 to and from those locations, are to be found. 



When a suitable and satisfactory location is decided upon, 

 here then the ideal market garden or farm, the future home, 



