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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: above the surface bank up all around with the excavated earth. The pit is now ready for the reception of potted plants of primulas, pelargoniums, violets, wall flowers, begonias, heliotropes, fuchsias, abutilons, lilies or roses, the tallest plant being placed on the back, where the elevation is three and one-half feet. CHAPTER XVII. Market Gardening Under Glass. So many and so radical have been the changes in modern commercial gardening during the last twenty- five years that a practical market gardener, of a quarter of a century ago, who, like Rip Van Winkle, should have taken a sleep from 1870 until the present, on awaking would find that his profession, as he understood it, had passed away, his old-fashioned and pet methods having been so altered that he would neither recognize nor understand the ways and means in 'practice by his scientific successors. Similar improved methods and appliances run through every branch of horticulture, but there is no branch where there have been more innovations made than in that of forcing vegetables under glass. These various changes in modes of culture are the result of a rapidly increasing demand in large cities and towns in the north and west for lettuce, radishes, cucumbers and other esculents for winter and early spring use. To meet this constant, ever-broadening and profitable branch of gardening, new and improved systems had to be developed. As long as the art of gardening has been practiced, both for private advantage and, in a limited extent, for commercial purposes, forcing certain vegetables in winter has been customary, but the old methods,entailing a great amount of manual labor, were expensive, the cost, if taken into account, being often greater than the value of the articles produced. Every reading gardener knows that l...
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