over one hundred topics are discussed by those who 
are fitted by experience to advise. The writer is 
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fruit farm of 131 acres which is his home, and upon 
which he has continually conducted experiments 
that would tend to enhance the value of his knowl¬ 
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a successful fruit grower. It contains 64 pages, over 
50illustrations and two beautiful colored plates. To 
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Dutch Market Gardens. 
In the neighborhood of Amsterdam, 
writes a correspon dent of The Garden , there 
are over 150 market gat dens, in the greater 
portion of which such kinds of vegetables 
as it is usual to forward under glass aie 
grown, while some are devoted exclusively 
to Haiicot beans, cabbages, and other 
things commonly cultivat* d as field crops. 
The Dutch market gardtners are a labori¬ 
ous, painstaking class, but seldom journey¬ 
ing far from home, are wedded to old ways 
some ot their appliances being of a very 
primitiv e description. Thus, for instance, 
the sashes of their frames are glazed with 
small squares bedded in lead just like the 
old-fashioned casement windows, a fact 
which seems most strange, seeing that 
style of glazing garden frames has many 
years been quite obsolete in European gar¬ 
dens generally. The frames themselves are 
of a rough description, being formed of 
thick boards, being generally some eighty 
feet long and divided into compartments 
at need. Where ground is so valuable, 
space is naturally economized as much as 
possible, there being but about one and a 
half feet between each row of frames. Each 
market garden is surrounded by hedges and 
divided into two or several portions by 
screens or transverse hedges. In a level 
country like Holland, where there are but 
few natural breaks to the fury of the winds, 
some such kind of artificial protection is 
almost indispensable and especially where a 
large number of glass frames are emph yed. 
One or more of these compartments are oc¬ 
cupied by the dwelling-house, sheds, and 
cellars, for vegetables and frames; the 
rdhiainder are devoted to the various kinds 
of crops which may be made a specialty of. 
Some growers use as many as two thous¬ 
and lights, from which thiee or four crops 
are taken annually. Thus at the com¬ 
mencement of the jtar they are filled with 
carrots, parsley, sorrel, leeks, either seed¬ 
ling or autumn-sown plants, lettuces for 
cutting in a young state, turnips for the 
sake of the stalks, celery and lettuces sown 
thickly, to be used as thinned out and for 
heaiting. No heat is applied to such things 
at that time of year, the frames being mere¬ 
ly a brotection against the rigorous winter 
climate, which, as in Germany, does not 
allow of the employment of fresh green 
vegetables from the open ground at that 
time of year. Cabbages, turnips, celery, and 
such like, must all get some protection, or 
they are liable to perish wholesale. This 
accounts for the dispaiity m numbers 
between those who grow in the open air ex¬ 
clusively, for while there are nearly 150 
market growers in the neighborhood of 
Amsterdam, very few of whom have not 
less than a thousand frames in use. there 
are not twenty who practice field culture 
It will thus be seen that such a quick rota¬ 
tion of crops by frames is practicable; they 
are indeed, never empty, being employed 
in w nter for the storage, as it were, of such 
things as cannot bear a Dutch winter, in 
spring for hastening salads and other 
things, and in summer for cucumbers 
principally. The growth of this esculent, 
indeed, forms an important industry in 
Dutch market gardens. The summer cli¬ 
mate is propitious, being just about as much 
warmer as it is colder than ours in winter, 
so that with generous culture heavy crops 
are obtained with regularity. Many of 
your readers will be acquainted with the 
‘■Dutchmen,” as the Convent Garden 
salesmen call them. These are cucumbers 
of medium size, rather rough in appear¬ 
ance, but of fairly good quality, and which 
may be bought during the summer season 
at wholesale from nine-pence to one shil¬ 
ling tliree-pence per dozen. They are very 
superior to the ridge, but inferior to the 
English frame fruit; ihey seem, indeed, 
