Marker Garpenine In New York Stare 1217 
At Irondequoit, Monroe county, is located the largest greenhouse 
vegetable forcing community in New York State, there being over 
a hundred growers, each of whom has one or more glass houses. 
Practically all of these growers look on hotbeds and cold frames 
as forcing structures not to be considered in their scheme of 
farming. The Irondequoit growers should be called the New 
York State advance guard in the most up-to-date lines of forcing 
vegetables. They raise radishes and lettuce in the fall, some- 
times also cucumbers or tomatoes, and cucumbers are often grown 
in the spring. They also grow a great variety of vegetables on 
the land outside the forcing structures. Their product is sold 
locally on the public market from their wagons or to special 
customers such as hotels, restaurants, and stores. When a surplus 
is found, it is shipped away to other markets. 
Near Buffalo there are a great many market gardeners located 
at Gardenville, Hamburg, Eden, Sanborn, Lancaster, Jewettville, 
South Wales, and other towns. Many of these are using the hot- 
beds and cold frames, and a few have the more modern greenhouse 
structure. All are intensive growers of vegetables outside as 
well as inside the forcing structures. The product is carried by 
wagon to the Elk Street or to the Polish market and is there sold. 
Some of the vegetables are shipped away either through a local 
association or through the hands of commission men. 
At Elmira, Ithaca, Cortland, Auburn, Binghamton, Port Jervis, 
and Middletown are found market gardeners, several being located 
near each of these cities to supply the local demands. In some 
cases up-to-date greenhouses are used, supplemented with hotbeds 
and cold frames, and outside gardening is practiced as well. 
INTENSIVE CULTURE 
The intensity of the operations conducted by the men near the 
different cities is quite apparent when one understands that from 
their land they are able in a single season to remove from one to 
three crops. In some cases, particularly on Long Island, even 
four crops are removed in some years. It is necessary for these 
men to reap many crops each year because of the high valuation 
of the land. Near New York City an acre of land is worth almost 
any price — $5,000 to $7,500 or even more —while in other 
