CHAPTER V. 



THE POSSIBILITIES OF AGRICULTURE (continued). 



Extension of market-gardening and fruit growing :. in France ; 

 in the United States Culture under glass Kitchen gar- 

 dens under glass Hothouse culture : in Guernsey and 

 Jersey ; in Belgium Conclusion. 



ONE of the most interesting features of the 

 present evolution of agriculture is the ex- 

 tension lately taken by intensive market-garden- 

 ing of the same sort as has been described in the 

 third chapter. What formerly was limited to a 

 few hundreds of small gardens, is now spreading 

 with an astonishing rapidity. In this country 

 the area given to market-gardens, after having 

 more than doubled within the years 1879 to 1894, 

 when it attained 88,210 acres, has continued 

 steadily to increase.* But it is especially in 

 France, Belgium, and America that this branch 

 of culture has lately taken a great development. 

 (See Appendix P.) 



* Charles Whitehead, Hints on Vegetable and Fruit Farming, 

 London (J. Murray), 1890. The Gardener's Chronicle, 20th 

 April, 1895. 



