10 The Principles of Vegetable -Gardening 



charges are so small that they do not cut away a large 

 portion of the proceeds, as is usually the case when 

 shipping long distances by express. Mobile, Ala., is 

 doing a good deal in this way, to which might be 

 added fifteen or twenty stations along the Mobile & 

 Ohio railroad running northward in Alabama and 

 Mississippi. 



^^Our market is next interested in Texas territory. 

 Jacksonville and Tyler are perhaps the two leading 

 points, and have been for years, although more fruits 

 than vegetables are raised there. Alvin, Texas, has 

 become a great strawberry section, and some area has 

 also been devoted to vegetables in that and nearby 

 shipping points. Vegetable -growing has also come to 

 the front in a very prominent way far down on the 

 Gulf coast, at Corpus Ghristi and Rockport, and a 

 number of intervening points between there and Gal- 

 veston. The territory between Houston and Galveston 

 also discloses a great many pear orchards, vegetable 

 fields and strawberry patches. In fact, the industry 

 in those parts is growing very rapidly. Western Ar- 

 kansas, with Van Buren as a center, will control, ship 

 and distribute this coming season (1899) through one 

 man, who will manage the distribution of crops for 

 some twelve or fifteen different organizations in that 

 section. Over 400 car loads strawberries, nearly 500 

 cars cantaloupes, and at least 500 cars Irish potatoes, 

 together with several hundred cars of miscellaneous 

 stuff, at least 1,500 cars in all, will be shipped from 

 this section. Jacksonville, Texas, is the leading dis- 

 tributing and growing point in that section of the 



