. The encyclopedia of practical horticulture; a reference system of commercial horticulture, covering the practical and scientific phases of horticulture, with special reference to fruits and vegetables;. Gardening; Fruit-culture; Vegetable gardening. 260 ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PRACTICAL HORTICULTURE over $1,000 worth of cucumbers. They are not difficult to cultivate, pick, crate or market, and therefore in proportion to the labor expended yield enormous re- turns. / Squashes / Hubbard squashes do well and usually sell at high prices. We have known them to bring $300 per acre. Cabbages, Turnips, Etc.
. The encyclopedia of practical horticulture; a reference system of commercial horticulture, covering the practical and scientific phases of horticulture, with special reference to fruits and vegetables;. Gardening; Fruit-culture; Vegetable gardening. 260 ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PRACTICAL HORTICULTURE over $1,000 worth of cucumbers. They are not difficult to cultivate, pick, crate or market, and therefore in proportion to the labor expended yield enormous re- turns. / Squashes / Hubbard squashes do well and usually sell at high prices. We have known them to bring $300 per acre. Cabbages, Turnips, Etc. Cabbages, turnips, rutabagas, beets, cel- ery and asparagus are all profitable, and make it possible for a family to live in comfort on ten acres of land while the young trees are coming into bearing. We treat the growth of these crops more fully under their appropriate heads, but we know because we have seen it tried that it is possible both to succeed and to fail, and that success or failure depends on the labor and the intelligence put into the work. We have known a few persons who succeeded so well at growing crops be tween the trees that they abandoned the orchard idea and turned to the growing of vegetables as paying larger profits in proportion to the expenditure of money and of labor cost, than fruits. Small Fruits Strawberries, currants, gooseberries, raspberries and blackberries are often grown between the trees with varying de- grees of success. In choosing among them, we would say that the gooseberry is the least trouble, while the strawberry is likely to prove the most profitable. We have known strawberries to yield $300 per acre, but it is more likely, that the aver- age grower will not receive more than $150 to $200 per acre. \ Alfalfa > We have tried setting trees in a field of alfalfa by plowing out rows about six feet wide in which to set the trees, and allowing the alfalfa to grow between the rows. We did so on the theory that al- falfa is a nitrogen gath
Size: 2208px × 1132px
Photo credit: © Central Historic Books / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, booksubjectfruitculture, booksubjectgardening
