Agriculture for beginners . -, and trees as to pro-duce pleasing effects in the grounds surrounding our homesand in great public parks and pleasure grounds. Landscape-gardening, like architecture, has developed intoa great art and is now regarded as one of the so-called finearts, that is, arts that require taste, education, and refine-ment. The landscape-gardener forms pictures in nature justas the artist makes them on canvas, but uses natural objectsin his pictures instead of paint and canvas. 89 90 AGRICULTURE FOR BEGINNERS Market-Gardening. Formerly market-gardening was doneon small tracts
Agriculture for beginners . -, and trees as to pro-duce pleasing effects in the grounds surrounding our homesand in great public parks and pleasure grounds. Landscape-gardening, like architecture, has developed intoa great art and is now regarded as one of the so-called finearts, that is, arts that require taste, education, and refine-ment. The landscape-gardener forms pictures in nature justas the artist makes them on canvas, but uses natural objectsin his pictures instead of paint and canvas. 89 90 AGRICULTURE FOR BEGINNERS Market-Gardening. Formerly market-gardening was doneon small tracts of land in the immediate vicinity of largecities, where supplies of stable manure could be used fromthe city stables. But with the great increase in the popula-tion of the cities, these small areas could no longer supplythe demand, and the introduction of commercial fertilizersand the building of railroads enabled gardeners at great. Fig. 82. Strawberry-Growing is an Art distances from city markets to grow and ship their the markets, even in winter, are now supplied withfresh vegetables from regions where there is no frost. Then,as spring opens, fruits and vegetables are shipped from moretemperate regions. Later vegetables and fruits come fromthe sections nearer the great cities. This gradual nearing ofthe supply fields continues until the gardens near the citiescan furnish what is needed. HORTICULTURE 91 The market-gardeners around the great Northern cities,finding that winter products were coming from the Southand from warmer regions, began to build hothouses and b\-means of steam and hot-water pipes to make warm cUmatesin these glass houses. Many acres of land in the coldersections of the country- are covered with heated glass houses,and in them during the \\inter are produced fine crops oftomatoes, lettuce, radishes, cauliflowers, eggplants, and othervegetables. Thedegree of perfec-tion which th
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