CHAPTER V HORTICULTURE SECTION XXV. MARKET-GARDENING The word horticulture is one of those broad words under which much is grouped. It includes the cultivation of orchard fruits, such as apples and plums; of small fruits, such as strawberries and raspberries | CHAPTER V 50 CHAPTER V HORTICULTURE SECTION XXV. MARKET-GARDENING The word horticulture is one of those broad words under which much is grouped. It includes the cultivation of orchard fruits such as apples and plums of small fruits such as strawberries and raspberries of garden vegetables for the table of flowers of all sorts including shrubbery and ornamental trees and their arrangement into beautiful landscape effects around our homes. Horticulture then is a name for an art that is both far-reaching and important. The word gardening is generally given to that part of horticulture which has for its chief aim the raising of vegetables for our tables. Flower-gardening or the cultivation of plants valued for their bloom in making ornamental beds and borders and furnishing flowers for the decoration of the home is generally called floriculture. Landscape-gardening is the art of so arranging flower-beds grass shrubbery and trees as to produce pleasing effects in the grounds surrounding our homes and in great public parks and pleasure grounds. Landscape-gardening like architecture has developed intoll as the artist makes them on canvas but uses natural objects in his pictures instead of paint and canvas. Market-Gardening. Formerly market-gardening was done on small tracts of land in the immediate vicinity of large cities where supplies of stable manure could be used from the city stables. But with the great increase in the population of the cities these small areas could no longer supply the demand and the introduction of commercial fertilizers and the building of railroads enabled gardeners at great distances from city markets to grow and ship their products. Hence the markets even in winter are now supplied with fresh vegetables from regions where there is no frost. Then as spring opens fruits and vegetables are shipped from more temperate regions. Later vegetables and fruits come from the sections nearer the great cities. This gradual nearing of the supply fields .
