Farm-Gardening and Seed-Growing, 



INTRODUCTION. 



A few years since, while residing at Newark, N. J., 

 and engaged in market-gardening and seed-growing, the 

 idea of writing a book on the latter subject was suggested 

 to me by one of the editors of the American Agricul- 

 turist. 



I thought the matter over, and finally abandoned the 

 idea, from the fact that I did not believe the subject con- 

 tained matter enough for a separate volume. Since my 

 removal to the eastern part of Long Island a section, by 

 the way, admirably adapted to the production of vegeta- 

 bles and seeds and noticing the interest manifested here 

 by the farmers in matters pertaining to gardening, I have 

 concluded to write a book on the leading vegetables and 

 their seeds. 



The market-gardens about the larger cities, especially 

 New York, are being, one by one, cut up for building pur- 

 poses, to accommodate the mass of people whose occupa- 

 tions are in the city, but who are obliged to find a dwelling- 

 place beyond its limits. Hence it would seem that the 

 time will soon be when the consumer must depend upon 

 the "farm-garden" of remote districts for a supply of 

 vegetables of many kinds, and the finer sorts alone, which 

 are not transportable, will be the principal articles grown 

 near the city. 

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