2 The Principles of Vegetable- Gardening 



tomatoes, asparagus, peas, beans, cucumbers, squashes, 

 celery, lettuce. 



Market -gardening is the growing of vegetables for 

 sale. The American term truck -gardening is really 

 synonymous, although it is sometimes used in connec- 

 tion with the larger market -gardening enterprises. An 

 arbitrary distinction between market -gardening and 

 truck -gardening was made by J. H. Hale in the work 

 for the Eleventh Census. In Bulletin 41 of the Census 

 Bureau, truck -gardening is understood as the business 

 "carried on in favored localities at a distance from 

 market, water and rail transportation being necessary," 

 while market -gardening is "conducted near local mar- 

 kets, the grower of vegetables using his own team for 

 transporting his products direct to either the retailer 

 or consumer." This distinction is not a fundamental 

 one, and is not the general understanding of the 

 terms ; but it seemed to be necessary, for statistical 

 reasons, to make the separation. 



By common consent, the whole subject of vegetable- 

 gardening is considered to belong to that part of hus- 

 bandry known as horticulture. In its smaller and 

 intenser applications, it is unquestionably horticulture, 

 for it is gardening ; but in its larger and looser 

 applications, as in the field culture of squashes and 

 tomatoes, it is quite as properly agriculture. The sweet 

 potato is generally considered to be a horticultural crop, 

 particularly in the North, but the Irish or round potato 

 is generally regarded as a farm crop. Sweet corn is a 

 horticultural crop, whereas other corn is not. These 

 examples show that the demarcation between agricul- 



