The American is learning that quality pays better than quantity in market gardening, and that ten acres by intensive methods may be made 
to pay better than the one-man big-acreage farm 
feathered insecticides, feathered cultivators and fertility pro¬ 
ducers. The gain is two-fold, for in helping the orchard the 
feathered end of the combination is keeping in prime condition 
and gathering its own food at the same time. 
To those who find the greatest pleasure and profit in growing- 
vegetables, the intensive crop system of Europe soon becomes 
second nature, for common sense alone is needed to show that 
four crops annually per acre are four times better than one, and 
that ten acres handled thus equal forty acres in yield and far 
excel larger acreage in income. Aside from the condensation of 
labor for all four propositions, oftentimes a single crop is wiped 
out by unfavorable conditions. That concentration in agricul¬ 
ture has precisely the same great value that this most excellent 
quality has in professional or mercantile life is assuredly a self- 
evident fact. 
Limited acreage or the small farm need not by any means be 
looked upon as of value only as an intensive vegetable garden, 
for many are the possible combinations open and susceptible of 
development into sure producers of an extremely good living, of 
an eminently respectable income, or as high-class money-makers, in 
accord with the personal equation possessed by the owner and 
manipulator thereof. 
Ten acres, for example, will be found a satisfactory planta¬ 
tion for the man or woman who loves flowers, and perhaps is 
especially attracted by 
the violet, aster, chrys¬ 
anthemum, or the rose. 
On this limited num¬ 
ber of acres can be 
garnered a vast yield 
of cut flowers, and to 
this extremely lucrative 
source of revenue can 
be added the growing 
of seed and of plants, 
for which there is an 
ever-unsupplied a n d 
constantly growing de¬ 
mand. This source of 
revenue does not end 
with the waning of the 
summer’s warmth, but 
can be, and is, made a 
continuous perf orm- 
ance throughout the en¬ 
tire year by the use of 
glass, whether in the form of high-class modern greenhouse struc¬ 
tures, or the simple, and low-priced, coldframes. 
To Long Islanders there opens another most attractive pro¬ 
fession—that of growing flowering bulbs, which is not only a 
promising, but a practical and proven highly successful line of 
work. For years we have personally planted bulbs coming from 
European sources, in the open, and found, without exception, that 
the particularly benign natural conditions belonging to Long 
Island, both in soil and climate, developed bulbs producing finer 
flowers, both in color and texture, than those obtained from fo.r- 
eign-grown specimens. This was true of many varieties of tulips, 
hyacinths, and members of the narcissus family. It is likewise 
true of cannas, gladiolii and lilies, and this line alone presents op- 
portunties for a vast army of growers. 
Another alluring profession is berry culture, and for this the 
small acreage will prove entirely satisfactory. Five acres of 
strawberries, with varieties so selected as to cover the full straw¬ 
berry season, from extra early to very late, can, because its owner 
is enabled to cover every foot of it frequently and with careful 
scrutiny, because the owner is enabled to hold down within proper 
bounds the number of runners produced by each variety, because 
overhead irrigation can be cheaply installed so that moisture can 
be given when nature withholds this absolute necessity for the 
highest development and fullest production, produce this delectable 
and almost universally 
favored vine fruit to a 
high degree of excel¬ 
lence. 
Raspberries are, at 
the present day, practi¬ 
cally unattainable in the 
quantities for which 
they are yearned by 
either the classes or 
masses, and hence pre¬ 
sent a most enticing 
source of income. 
Beyond the insipid 
and woefully unattrac¬ 
tive, dull, purplish col¬ 
ored berry, commonly 
grown at the present 
day, few raspberries in¬ 
deed can be found in 
even the best of our 
markets, vet selection 
