XXIX. HORTICULTURE 



THE word horticulture is of Latin derivation and translated 

 literally means garden culture or the cultivation of garden products- 

 It is used in a much broader sense, however, and it includes the 

 cultivation and growing of vegetables, fruits, flowers, and orna- 

 mental plants. 



Horticulture may be subdivided as follows: 



1. Olericulture or vegetable gardening. 



2. Pomology or fruit growing. 



3. Floriculture or flower gardening. 



4. Landscape gardening, or the designing of landscape effects 

 in the arrangement of ornamental plants. 



Vegetable Gardening may again be subdivided into market 

 gardening and home gardening. Market gardening, as the name 

 implies, has for its object the raising and marketing of vegetable 

 products for profit; while home gardening has for its object simply 

 the raising of vegetables for home use. Market gardening, or 

 truck farming as it is sometimes called, may be carried on very 

 profitably in many parts of the United States where the soil, 

 climate, markets, and transportation facilities are favorable. 

 The best truck patches or market gardens are found in the Atlantic 

 and Pacific belts, but truck farming is also successfully carried on 

 in many of the Northern, Central, and Southern States. From 

 five to ten acres is the average size of these farms; and the truck 

 growers who own them usually realize handsomely on their in- 

 vestments, especially when the farms are within easy reach of 

 the market in some large city. In Colorado, Arizona, New 

 Mexico, Nevada, California, Idaho, Montana, Utah, and Washing- 

 ton truck farming is carried on very successfully in the irrigated 

 districts, and good markets are found in the adjacent mining 

 regions where vegetables cannot be successfully grown. 



Marketing Crops. It is now possible to transport perishable 

 products in a very short time from one part of the country to 



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