. 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. Gardening; Horticulture; Horticulture; Horticulture. VEGETABLE GARDENING If, with his knowledge of vegetable-growiog, the gar- dener combines good business and executive ability, and an intimate knowledge of market conditions, he should be able, however, to make it a profltable and at- tractive business. Although the out
. 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. Gardening; Horticulture; Horticulture; Horticulture. VEGETABLE GARDENING If, with his knowledge of vegetable-growiog, the gar- dener combines good business and executive ability, and an intimate knowledge of market conditions, he should be able, however, to make it a profltable and at- tractive business. Although the outlay is likely to be large, the returns are direct and quick. Fig. 2644. There is a large literature devoted to vegetable-gar- dening, although the greater part of it applies chiefly to amateur or home-growing. Leading current books on the general subject of vegeta- ble - gardening are those by Greiner, Green, Henderson, Rawson and Landreth. For California one should consult Wickson's "California Vegeta- bles in Garden and Field," and for the Atlantic south, Rolf's "Vegetable - Growing in the South for Northern ; There are many books devoted to special topics, and there are many others which in their time were of great practical value, but which are now chiefly known as recording the history of the epoch in which they were written. Only one American work has been devoted to de- VEGETABLE GARDENING 1907 are chiefly grown in gardens elsewhere, have become field crops in California covering very large acreage. Such enterprises attract American citizens and are changing the popular conception of the dignity and opportunity of vegetable-growing. A measure of this influence, as well as of the extent of the product, may be had in the statistics of the year 1900. In that year there were shipped out of the state by rail and sea 51,400 tons of green vegetables. The product of canned vegetables in iptK of 1 of vege- ^=^. tables, as the works of Down ing, Thomas,
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