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Each wagon soon secures as many regular customers as can 
be called on in an half day, who are glad to give their patron¬ 
age, provided they can be assured a daily or tri-weekly supply. 
We have had many customers seed down their own gardens 
under such assurance, and have never yet lacked for buyers. 
The best salesmen we have had were Swede boys from 17 to 
20 years old. They arc quiet, attentive, honest, and ambi¬ 
tious to improve, and yet [work for moderate wages, and 
have proved more serviceable than mature Americans of con¬ 
siderable business experience and ability whom we have em¬ 
ployed. The first half of the year the sales are all made in 
the forenoon, and afternoons horses and hands go to the fields. 
Later in the season the wagons run all day. 
Thus I have sought, as briefly as possible, to give such hints 
upon the management of a market garden as the peculiarities 
of our locations, our western soil and markets render neces¬ 
sary ; particularly as in contrast w r ith the eastern soils and mar¬ 
kets, on the basis of which all of our books and authorities on 
gardening are founded. Taking into account the differences 
and the suggestions regarding them in the forepart of this arti¬ 
cle, we cannot commend too highly the standard works on 
gardening of recent publication, particularly Henderson’s 
“Gardening for Profit,” and Quinn’s “Money in the Garden.” 
By the aid ot the former, with what was to be learned 
from a few volumes of agricultural papers, 1 acquired 
such a knowledge of the business, that driven by poor health 
from the profession to which I had devoted all my energies— 
knowing previously not enough of gardening to grow a decent 
cabbage—I was able, except as to some little matters, which 
nothing but experience could teach, to grow as good crops the 
first year of our business as I have ever grown or seen grown 
since. 
In leaving this subject I would commend it to all as a 
business full of pleasure and satisfaction to one who enjoys the 
tilling of the soil and country life, while still unwilling to 
leave the town and its commercial spirit. While it demands 
