AUTHOR'S PEEPACE. 



SEED-GROWING properly pertains to an agricultural 

 country, such as is the United States. It is a business 

 in which the profits are large and one which to supply 

 our needs in full affords great opportunity for much 

 enlargement in this country. It is also an industry 

 that could be built up here for export trade, which at 

 present amounts to comparatively nothing. 



In all candor it must be said, we do not stand in the 

 front rank before the world as seed-growers. For, while 

 the past quarter of a century has seen much progress 

 here in seed-growing, the industry with us is still in a 

 stage of infancy and much remains to be done. As 

 evidenced by the following pages, we still depend to a 

 large extent on European growers for the best grown 

 seeds of many varieties, particularly of beet, cabbage, 

 carrot, cauliflower, kale, kohl rabi, leek, onion (a few 

 kinds), parsley, parsnip, radish, spinach, turnip, the 

 choicer grades of flower seeds and all our Fall planting 

 bulbs. The exceptions to these, however, namely, 

 peas, beans, celery, cucumber, lettuce, melon, tomato, 

 certain kinds of onion, we no longer import, for we 

 have demonstrated our ability to grow the finest seeds 

 of these ourselves more cheaply than can be done in 

 Europe. Therefore what we are doing with these we 

 can also do in producing commercially all other seeds 

 required for the garden. 



Why should we not lead the world in the production 

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