. 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, and a synopsis of the vegetable kingdom. Gardening -- Dictionaries; Plants -- North America encyclopedias. VEGETABLE GARDENING There seems to be a growing tendency in this country for vegetable-gardening to become a part of general farming schemes. A generation ago a large part of the vegetable-gardening for profit was con
. 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, and a synopsis of the vegetable kingdom. Gardening -- Dictionaries; Plants -- North America encyclopedias. VEGETABLE GARDENING There seems to be a growing tendency in this country for vegetable-gardening to become a part of general farming schemes. A generation ago a large part of the vegetable-gardening for profit was conducted in rela- tively small areas by men who devoted their entire time to the business. At present much of the vegetable- gardening enterprise is merely an adjunct to farming proper. This is in part due to the development of the canning industry, because of which enormous quanti- ties of certain products, as of tomatoes, are desired. It is partly due also to the extension of agriculture into the newer regions whereby lands are discovered that are particularly well adapted to the growing of special commodities; as, for example, the raising of squashes in some of the prairie states and the recent extension of VEGETABLE GARDENING 1905 Census, 1890. According to a bulletin issued by that census the investment in commercial or purely truck- gardening interests of the country lying beyond the immediate vicinity of large cities amounted to more than $100,000,000. More than half a million acres of land were devoted to the industry and nearly a quarter of a million of people were employed. After paying freights and commission, the products of these estab- lishments brought to their owners more than $76,- 000,000. Vegetable-gardening may be divided into two great categories, depending on the disposition that is to be made of the products ; namely, market-gardening or truck-gardening, of which the purpose is to make money from the industry; and home- or amateur-gardening, in. 2643. Onion
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