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VEGETABLE GARDENING 



ply, while in the suburbs of- the larger cities, as well as upon 

 the home lot of the village dweller, its products are of even 

 greater importance in supplying the home table. Mil- 

 lions of dollars' worth of vegetables are annually produced 

 by such gardeners, and their products constitute an impor- 

 tant source of our food supply. 



Fig. 179. A market garden should be near town. 



Market Gardening. Market gardening refers to the 

 intensive commercial culture of vegetable crops generally 

 grown near the larger cities, where land values are high. 



Truck Gardening. -- The growing of vegetable crops 

 on an extensive scale is generally referred to as truck 

 farming. Sections devoted to this kind of gardening 

 are usually more distant from a market, where land values 

 are less than where market gardening is practiced. Usually 

 such crops as celery, tomatoes, and cabbage are grown which 

 do not need such intensive culture as those produced by 

 the market gardener. Very frequently, truck farming is 

 restricted to the growing of one or two special crops, as 

 the production of celery at Kalamazoo, Michigan, or of 



