10 MARKET GARDENING. 



Products. At Norfolk are grown extra early peas 

 in great quantity, string or snap short beans, early cu- 

 cumbers, tomatoes, kale, cabbage, spinach, early squash 

 and early potatoes, and other articles of minor import- 

 ance. Berry culture is also pursued there, and large 

 quantities of strawberries reach the Northern markets 

 from that quarter, and several weeks before those grown 

 near Philadelphia are ripe. Melons also find there a 

 congenial soil along rivers and water-courses, and where 

 ready means of transportation admit of carriage of bulky 

 articles at reasonable rates. To illustrate the extent to 

 which trucking at Norfolk is pursued may be cited the 

 spinach crop grown there, which annually takes one 

 hundred thousand pounds of seed to sow the land. 



Still further south, from the ports of Charleston 

 and Savannah, come to us in advance of those of Nor- 

 folk, peas, beans, asparagus, cucumbers, cabbage, pota- 

 toes and berries. 



But is it necessary to profitable gardening that 

 there should be great variety ? On this subject 

 there are two distinct views, one set of men directing 

 their energies to the production of a limited variety, 

 aiming to grow and ship those well. Such a system 

 affords a longer time for planting and culture, the mind 

 not being harassed by the conflicting claims of many 

 crops, the few which grow being harvested, affording 

 an opportunity to plan for the future and rest from the 

 labors of the past. A second set of cultivators planting 

 more or less of everything, at every season, always plant- 

 ing, seeding, marketing, a never-ceasing round of labor 

 and anxiety. This system, however, seems to be one 

 which, by its very diversification, offers the best hope of 

 profit, as the cultivator does not carry all his eggs in 

 one basket, nor in several, but in many. 



With the seven millions of people of Philadelphia, 

 New York, Boston, St. Louis and Chicago, and the many 



