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able spot, and cultivated them to the best of my ability. The 
result was a very early, as well as a fine crop of them. I put the 
price at 37J cents per dozen, which was low enough to drive the 
southern ones out of the market, and as no other gardener about 
town had any, I had the market entirely to myself. This lasted 
about ten or twelve days, when some three or four other growers 
brought in their first picking upon the same morning. The price 
fell from 37J cents to 9 cents that morning, and in two or three 
days they were not worth 25 cents per bushel. The result was, 
I made a nice profit upon my crop, while I think none of the 
other growers realized sufficient for theirs to pay for marketing 
them. 
I might produce many such illustrations, but this one is suffi¬ 
cient for our present purpose. 
Another very important consideration is the location. It is far 
better to pay a good round price for land within one mile of the 
market, than to have the same kind of land given to you two 
miles away. For instance, some years since, a young friend of 
mine commenced business as a gardener and a fruit grower. He 
was situated upon the same road that I am, but about twice the 
distance, or 2\ rqiles from the business portion of our city. He 
laid out a considerable sum of money in his preparations. He 
was a good grower, and an honorable young man, and I hoped to 
see him do well. He followed the business for two or three years, 
but he never seemed to find a good market for his crops, and they 
were almost constantly a drug upon his hands, while my crops 
were always sold at a fair price. At length he came to me one 
day and said, “ I am going out of vegetable growing entirely.” 
“ Why so?” I asked. “ Well,” said he, “your location gives you 
such an advantage, that I cannot compete with you. You can be 
in market a little earlier than I can, and what is still worse, a 
merchant or his clerk will never drive by your garden and come 
to mine, unless you happen to be out of the things he needs. The 
result is, that you control the market, and I can only get such 
orders as you cannot, or do not choose to fill.” And this was true, 
though I had never by any word or act of mine, made the least 
effort to crowd him out of the market. Nor is this alb The 
difference ol only one mile in distance will make a vast difference 
