. Cyclopedia of American horticulture : comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. it (1 p rfi 111 «hc it clo\ei lud timothy and the mountain couiilM nil 1 iiiiiii,<^irdleacrosstheniil II Mli t ,tp1 (Fij; ,S ( ) Thi 1 l,^II<^^ ,t theintun ji ,ra but1th \ t ml I 111 The soil vanes,, li_lii 111 I in 1\ but for Ihe mostt iiti\ 1 111 I I lublmg that of theWhile c tt n 1^, 1 stiple cro
. Cyclopedia of American horticulture : comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. it (1 p rfi 111 «hc it clo\ei lud timothy and the mountain couiilM nil 1 iiiiiii,<^irdleacrosstheniil II Mli t ,tp1 (Fij; ,S ( ) Thi 1 l,^II<^^ ,t theintun ji ,ra but1th \ t ml I 111 The soil vanes,, li_lii 111 I in 1\ but for Ihe mostt iiti\ 1 111 I I lublmg that of theWhile c tt n 1^, 1 stiple crop m allthi IS precminentlj the cotton beltimes the timber belt (D) covering thethird of the stite and e\tending to the GulfmU ent of the lumberman this extensive re epi 57 Akcbia neighborhood, theing 1,500,000 fruitmentals; and the ?labor. Beginnings have been made in fruit and vegetablegrowing at various other points in the state, particularlyat Cullman, Montgomery, and Evergreen, on the Louis-ville and Nashville railroad, and at Fruithurst, in north-eastern Alabama, on the Southeru railway. No data havebeen secured as to the total shipment from these variouspoints, but the combined amount is very small, as com-pared with those from the Mobile region. One road, the. giou was an unbroken forest of long-leaf yellow pine,with magnolias and other broad-leaved evergreens bor-dering the water courses. The surface is rolling, or in 40 ALABAMA some parts very hilly. The soil is a light, sandy loam,usuallyunderlaid with red or yellow clay. It is naturallypoor, being deficient in potash and phosphoric acid, andyields only scanty crops without fertilizers. It can,however, be made very productive by judicious manur-ing, and it builds up rapidly under intelligent intensivefarming. This region is well adapted, both by soil andclimate, to the production of early vegetables, and itseems probable that the business of truck-farming willultimately spread widely from its present center atMobile.
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