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grown in succession on a comparatively restricted area. Truck farm- 

 ing is in reality extensive market gardening, while market gardening 

 is the most intensive form of farming. It is the practice of many 

 market gardeners to plant coarse-growing, long-season crops far apart, 

 and interplant one, two or even three short-season, quick-maturing 

 crops between them; or a quick- growing, short-season crop may be 

 planted, and between the rows a crop requiiing a longer season, so 



Fig. 1. — Wakefield strain of cabbage; A, Charleston Wakefield; B, Jersey Wakefield. 



that as the quick-growing crop is har\^ested the whole area is given 

 up to the longer-season crop. Cabbage is frequently made the basis 

 of such a combination. Sometimes lettuce and radishes are grown 

 between the rows of cabbage. Sometimes cabbage is planted between 

 the rows of early beets, while late potatoes are frequently planted 

 between the rows of early cabbage. The various combinations of 

 such crops are too numerous to be catalogued. 



Young Plants for the Market Garden, — The preparation of cabbage 

 plants for the use of the market gardener in the north is a different 

 matter from growing plants for use on a tnick farm in the south. The 

 market gardener at most grows only a few thousand heads. The- seed 



