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CHAPTER XV. 
THE MINOR CROPS. 
ASPARAGUS, DalIsy, PARSLEY, 
BEANS, ENDIVE, POTATO, 
BEETS, MELON, RHUBARB, 
CABBAGE PLANTS, MINT, SPINACH, 
CARROT, MUSHROOMS, VIOLET, 
” CAULIFLOWER, ONIONS, WATER CRESS. 
CORN SALAD, * PANSY, 
The list of winter crops treated in the third and conclud- 
ing part of this little book does not exhaust the under-glass 
possibilities, for almost all the garden vegetables are capable 
of production during the whole year, with the facilities and 
markets now within the reach of American gardeners. 
Those mentioned above are the crops now commonly 
grown in addition to the so-called staples treated in Part IT. 
We do not mean to belittle the value of any of 
these things in thus treating them’ as of minor importance, 
for every part of the country—every latitude, every altitude, 
every geological belt—is especially adapted to a certain crop 
or crops, and success is often a question of learning what is 
best suited to the location and surroundings of the individual 
gardener. 
This is, indeed, a very fortunate circumstance, since it 
gives to every culturist in the whole country some special 
advantage, and by so much adds to the possibility of good 
profits. Except for this variation the gardener would be 
ruined by the universal competition. 
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