IMPORTANT DETAILS IN COMMERCIAL 

 GARDENING 



Many varied circumstances and details exercise a 

 material influence upon success in commercial gardening, 

 and every man who wishes to make substantial progress 

 must give them his best attention, or he soon finds in the 

 keen competition of the age that he is left in the rear. 

 He must be a close observer as well as a good cultivator, 

 and should be prepared to take the fullest advantage of 

 all observations which indicate a reasonable chance of 

 profit. Enterprise will often enable a man to find a 

 fresh crop, or a more paying outlet for his produce, 

 while another man is lamenting over quantities that 

 remain on hand unsold, or who dolefully reckons up his 

 losses on the low prices returned for goods sent to over- 

 stocked markets. 



In the production of garden crops for sale on a large 

 scale it is quite unavoidable that at times the rush and 

 pressure will lead to rough-and-ready methods of work- 

 ing ; but if the general organisation is good, such 

 instances will be the exceptions ; where there is no 

 well-considered system, however, " rough-and-ready" 

 becomes the rule with disastrous results. In earlier 

 days, when competition was less severe than it is in 

 present times, some industrious growers who could turn 

 out large crops of fairly well-grown produce were able 

 to secure returns showing considerable profits, because 

 their expenses in some directions were less than they are 

 now. In these days mere bulk is not sufficient, a higher 

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