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the pecan is approaching that status in the Gulf and South Atlantic 

 States. 



Numerous questions affecting the nut industry are pressing for 

 solution, the rapidity with which plantings have been made having pre- 

 vented the acquirement of enlightening experience as a guide to the 

 commercial planters. 



The important questions of self-fertility or sterility of varieties, 

 relative congeniality and adaptability of grafting stocks, resistance to 

 diseases and insects, etc., as well as the broad and important question 

 of relative adaptability of varieties to soils and regions demand thor- 

 ough and systematic investigation if the industry is to have healthy 

 and normal economic development. 



COMMERCIAL GROWING OF GARDEN VEGETABLES. 

 W. W. RAWSON, BOSTON, MASS. 



The culture of vegetables is one of the most interesting and profit- 

 able of the many branches of agriculture, and from the fact that the 

 demand for fresh vegetables is so great in our larger towns and cities 

 the growing of these crops has become a business followed by many 

 situated near the large markets. The business as carried on to-day is 

 termed market gardening to distinguish it from, the old-fashioned 

 farming. It requires a vast amount of knowledge and experience to be 

 a successful market gardener and one must not only know how to grow 

 but also what to grow. There are many crops of vegetables which may 

 be termed annual products, but there are a number of varieties which 

 may be grown to a high point of perfection at all seasons by the use 

 of glass. 



The kitchen garden, as it is often termed, includes many of these 

 varieties and especially those which are most desired by the market 

 gardener, namely, lettuce, cucumbers, cabbage, onions, radishes, spin- 

 ach, beets, celery, carrots, parsnips, tomatoes, cauliflower, squashes, 

 peas, beans and corn. 



A good many of these may be called luxuries and are quite difficult 

 to grow, but there exists a large demand for them in our larger cities 

 and towns and those market gardeners who specialize in the above 

 varieties and grow them successfully have built up a business or pro- 

 fession which is very profitable. 



It is a well known fact that it is more difficult to grow crops in 

 the field than under glass and those who have the best knowledge of 

 the business grow many of the finer vegetables in that way. 



To be successful requires not only a large capital and good land, 

 but also a thorough knowledge of the business. While in field culture, 

 we use the land for what it will produce with a little cultivation and 

 some fertilization, under glass we use land as a machine, putting into 

 it such a crop as we wish to produce and using such fertilizers as that 

 special crop requires. 



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