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VEGETABLE GARDENING 



cantaloupes at Rocky Ford, Colorado. In many places, 

 however, both market gardening and truck farming are 

 practiced on the same farm. 



Vegetable Forcing. - This is the most intensive type of 

 vegetable production. It is frequently combined with 

 market gardening and necessitates the use of glass houses 

 for starting the crops early or growing them entirely under 

 glass. Vegetables may be forced in greenhouses, hotbeds, 

 or cold frames. 



Selecting Varieties. In producing vegetables for the 

 home table, it should be the aim of the gardener to secure 



a uniform and con- 

 stant supply. The 

 kinds should be those 

 preferred by the mem- 

 bers of the family for 

 whom they are grown. 

 It is especially desir- 

 able to produce as 

 great a variety as pos- 

 sible of the best and 

 highest quality. Since 

 the quality of vege- 

 tables depends much 

 upon the variety, in 

 selecting them, one 

 should remember that the important commercial varieties 

 are not always 'the best for the home garden. 



Very frequently, varieties of high quality are not good 

 yielders or the best for shipping, and are, therefore, not 

 the most profitable. In the commercial vegetable garden, 

 earliness is also a most important character. The grower 



Fig. 181. A celery farm, Kalamazoo, Michigan. 



