No. 4.] MARKET GARDENING. 



MARKET GAEDENING. 



BY H. B. FULLERTON, DIRECTOR AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE 

 LONG ISLAND R.R. CO., LONG ISLAND, N. Y. 



Market gardening, in the true sense of the term as used in 

 Europe, is but little known in the United States, for only 

 within the last few years has it become a regular business. It 

 is true we have the " truck farmer," and once in a while we 

 read of the '' small farmer," and there are specialists galore 

 in all sections of the United States ; but still the real market 

 gardener or vegetable grower on the intensive plan is very 

 rare indeed. There are a few who practice it on Long Island 

 to supply the great demand of New York City, there are a 

 few round about Boston, and there are a few also near San 

 Francisco. About the city of the Golden Gate it is the China- 

 man who raises big varieties of vegetables and daily delivers 

 them to the consumer. On Long Island it is the European, 

 principally the German, who practices the intensive gardening 

 of the Rhineland. About Boston I understand both German 

 and French people are represented in this work, and inva- 

 riably the results are the same, for these intensive gardeners, 

 no matter whence they hail, make money with astounding 

 rapidity and become well-to-do in a very few years, and all this 

 upon an acreage so small that the old-time farmer generally 

 sneers at them as " little truck patches." The reason for this 

 success is due not to the foreigner, but the principle that he 

 employs, and this principle is invariably successful in every 

 walk of life. Summed up, it is simply the concentration of 

 effort, instead of the scattering of effort which the average 

 farmer pursues. With this concentration is linked another 

 thing, the knowledge that all foreigners bring to the United 

 States in regard to the fundamental necessity for quick growth 



