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naturally lead to the centralization of celery -growing in certain 

 localities especially suited to this vegetable. 



In my own town, on the south side of the city, we have 

 soil that seems to be especially suited to the growing of 

 lettuce, and so the glass houses devoted to the growing of 

 this product are springing up everywhere upon this soil; while 

 upon the west side of the town there is a soil that is perfectly 

 suited to the growing of the highest grade of carnations and 

 roses, and the result is that this industry is attaining a high 

 development in this locality. 



A set of greenhouses came into my hands in a little village 

 just outside of our town. We tried lettuce and cucumbers 

 and carnations, with just a moderate kind of success, but did 

 not attain the high standard that we sought. As a result of 

 experiment, we found that upon the soil in this locality we 

 could grow a high grade of parsley, and in two years' time we 

 put a product upon the Chicago market that was recognized 

 of such quality as to secure a name for the village in which it 

 was grown. 



The sugar beet is another illustration. In certain localities 

 it is found to develop more perfectly than in others, and natu- 

 rally in these localities the factories will be established. 



In western Michigan the peach territory is somewhat lim- 

 ited, so that no matter what the quality of soil or how suc- 

 cessfully other things may grow upon a given location, if it is 

 admirably suited to peaches, peaches must be grown there, and 

 other things sacrificed in the interests of this fruit. So we 

 find everywhere that these conditions must be recognized and 

 we must square ourselves to the situation. 



New factors are coming in constantly to modify the horti- 

 culture of the day, and perturbations will often lead to the 

 discovery of the relationship of these factors to the trend of 

 the business. Among these I may mention first the telephone. 

 The first horticultural telephone that was put in in our city 

 was at my own farm, and I was called for some time a "tele- 

 phone farmer," rather in irony than otherwise, but I very soon 

 learned that it was a great deal easier selling my products over the 

 wire than it was to put them on the market at two o'clock in 

 the morning, the early hour being necessary to get a position. 



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