GARDENING FOR PROFIT. 



CHAPTER I. 



THE MEN FITTED FOR THE BUSINESS OF 

 GARDENING. 



Although we shall here show the business of gar- 

 dening to be a profitable one, let no man deceive 

 himself by supposing that these profits are attainable 

 without steady personal application. 



Having been long known as extensively engaged in 

 the business, I am applied to by scores every season, 

 asking how they can make their lands available for 

 garden purposes. The majority of these are city mer- 

 chants who, for investment or in anticipation of a ru- 

 ral retreat in the autumn of their days, have pur- 

 chased a country place, and in the meantime they 

 wish to make it pay. They have read or heard that 

 market gardening is profitable, and they think it an 

 easy matter to hire a gardener to work the place 

 while they attend their own mercantile duties as be- 

 fore. They are usually gentlemen of horticultural 

 tendencies, read all the magazines and books on the 

 subject, and from the knowledge thus obtained, plume 

 themselves with the conceit that they are able to guide 

 the machine. 

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