8 FAKM-GARDENING AND SEED-GROWING. 



For valuable information on market-gardening I would 

 respectfully recommend to them " Gardening for Profit," 

 a practical work, giving a full expose of the system of 

 that business as practised about New York City, and 

 written by Peter Henderson, one of the most successful 

 gardeners of that vicinity. 



FARM-GARDENING. 



This term may be applied to the growing of garden 

 vegetables more remote from market. The farm-gardens 

 of the present day are not very far distant from the cities, 

 and in them are grown many vegetables which are found 

 in the market-garden, but usually the main crops are the 

 coarser articles best adapted to transportation, and such as 

 do not require excessively heavy manuring. As I re- 

 marked in the Introduction, the time must come when the 

 production of grain and all farm produce must be left to 

 the great West, and all suitable land within a radius of at 

 least one hundred miles of our present commercial centers 

 will be occupied as farm-gardens in producing vegetables 

 for the millions who will be engaged in mercantile and 

 mechanical pursuits in the cities, fast spreading over the 

 sections now used for the purpose of gardening. I have 

 no desire to be prophetic, but if we may judge of the 

 future by the past, this view would seem to be well founded. 

 This work, so far as it treats on the growing of vegeta- 

 bles, is intended principally for those Avho now or may in 

 the future have land distant from the great market 

 centers who may desire to change their business. 



While I have scrupulously avoided in every case writing 

 anything in regard to the possible or probable amount of 

 money to be realized from any crop, I must say that be- 

 yond a doubt there are many vegetable crops which may 

 be grown far remote from, and shipped to market, that 

 will pay much greater profits than ordinary farm produce. 



