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market, the greater the range of varieties he can ship 

 successfully. 



Second : That of too great diversification and the 

 undertaking to grow too many kinds of vegetables, 

 requiring widely diiferent conditions of soil and climate, 

 the land, perhaps, being very favorable to some, and to 

 others not adapted at all. 



If growers in the Southern States would continue to 

 raise, each year, such varieties as have proved adapted to 

 their soil and location, and avoid overcropping with such 

 sorts, which, by accident, paid the largest return the pre- 

 ceding season, their average yearly return would certainly 

 be better. To illustrate this more clearly, it may be 

 well to note a circumstance which occurred during the 

 spring of 1890. The spring before, Philadelphia received 

 a limited supply of from one hundred to two hundred 

 quarts per day of strawberries from Florida, very early, 

 and very good, and they found ready sale at from sixty 

 cents to one dollar per quart, the consequence being the 

 setting out in Florida of a very largely increased acreage 

 of strawberry plants. Now, what was the result ? The 

 receipts from the same section the spring of 1891 

 ran from one thousand to two thousand quarts per day, 

 and they were retailed through the streets by hawkers 

 at fifteen to eighteen cents per quart, the results of 

 over-production. 



Large quantities of new potatoes reach the markets 

 of New York and Philadelphia from Bermuda, Charles- 

 ton, Savannah, Florida, and, still later, but before North- 

 ern crops mature, from Virginia and Maryland, and 

 there is room for more, at paying prices, and they who 

 present them early, of good sorts and in good condition, 

 need not apprehend a want of customers. 



Florida, however, seems to be destined to be the 

 market garden of the Atlantic States, as the gardening 

 year there is one of almost continued sowing and har- 



