1224 Tur Vecetaste Inpustry In New York Strate 
intensive. A great deal of hand work is resorted to in cultivat- 
ing. Companion and succession cropping are developed to a high 
degree. Large areas of glass are used in the form of cold frames 
in order that a continuous supply and a large assortment of vege- 
tables can be marketed during as many months of the year as pos- 
sible. There are very few forcing houses in the form of green-. 
houses, since much of the land is rented and therefore no perma- 
nent improvements are made. A great proportion of the gardeners 
are foreigners — Poles, Italians and Germans. The marketing is 
usually done personally, by attending the large wholesale and re- 
tail markets of New York City. The style of the Long Island 
market wagon is peculiar to this section and parts of New Jersey 
adjacent to New York./ The load of vegetables is usually sold 
wholesale, sometimes by the load and sometimes by the barrel, 
bushel or crate. |The grower likes to sell his vegetables as soon as 
possible and return home in order that a day’s work can be done. 
The cold frames 
4 are used as early 
‘a the spring as 
@ \weather condi- 
tions permit. 
Sometimes the 
seed bed is pre- 
pared in the fall 
and left until 
January or Feb- 
ruary when seed 
Fic, 345. Carrots Marurep 1n CoLp FRAMES IN THE 
FALL, TO BE Prorectep WitH Giass aND BuNCHED Dur- can be sown. 
ING THE WINTER, Eranurst, L. I. 
The first early 
cold frame crops consist mostly of salad plants, such as lettuce, 
endive and parsley, and such crops as radishes, early beets, carrots, 
ete. The crops grown in the open ground include vegetables that 
can be grown commercially in this latitude; the assortment is very 
large. Cold frames are also brought to use in the fall and winter 
by growing such vegetables as beets, parsley, carrots and parsnips 
in the frames during the fall, and covering them over with glass 
during severe weather. In this way these crops can be bunched 
during December and January. 
