The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1874-08-06

the Calumet, and to Evanston, or, as
was then called, Gross Point, on thu
north. Over all this district, hot beds anC
cold-frames covered with glass abounded
but. as the railroads extended south thu
acknowledgement and the open sun
Ii hit and warm soil took the place OF the
glass-covered cold-frame. The sunny
Ehill-sides at Golden, Anna, D0ngola anC
Villa Ridge, usurped the place OF the
city hot-beds and cold-frames, and vastly
cheapened the early vegetables, and, a
the same time, cheapened the early SINAI
fruits, and thus revOlutOnized the ole
system of producing the early vegetables
and fruits. And vet farther South pushed
the railroads, and farther South followed
| the gardens,
UNTIL THE GULF WAS REACHED
at Mobile. There, in the open ground
without the aid of glass, corn, green peas
beets, onions and the whole list of garden
vegetables could be grown ana sent &c
Chicago almost as early as they could be
planted in the open ground, and at less
than aquarter what they would cost grown
under glass.
Before one thought of laying aside his
overcoat, and before the first pulsations
offspring appeared in the Chicago gardens,
the market was filled with green peas,
strawberries and other like dainties in full
perfection, grown in the open air, on the
shores of Mobile Bay, and brought to the
city, thousand miles, by rail,
We might say that this was interfering
with local gardening. Not at all, for the
local gardener became interested in the
suburban gardening that was prosecuted
a thousand miles distant And to-day
the distant gardens are as much a part Of
they were covered with glass and
located just outside the busy marts of
trade
OF late there has been opened up a
new line of railroad, by filling in wanting
links, and this route from Cairo to New
Orleans has presented new field for the
enterprising gardener. Not that New
Orleans, as a garden site for the early
vegetables, has any particular charms,
but that the new line Of road runs inland
from the sickly streams, and passes over
the more healthy table-Iands, better adap-
ted to the homes of those reared at the
North.
WHERE SHALL 1 LOCATE AT THE SOUTH
for the purpose of growing vegetables and
the small fruits for the North has been
often repeated to US. As we go south
from Chicago, we find Monee, Kankakee,
Onarga, Champaign, Nation, Centralia,
DuQuoin, Carbonate, Makunda, Cob
den, Anna, DOngola and Villa Ridge-all
points Of interest in the growing of vege-
tables and fruits for Chicago and
other points north-Chicago being the
great distributing point. After a long
time, Memphis and Jackson were heard
from, and, for a few years back, vegeta-
bles have come from Mobile. On the
of the great through line to
New Orleans, the inquiry has beeen re-
newed, "Where shall / locate?"
A friend at
M'COMB CITY,
105 miles north of New Orleans, and 500
miles south of Cairo, writes in regard to
a new town, and, from his description, it
must eventually be prominent point for
market-gardens and the small fruit, such
as the strawberry, the raspberry, the
black berry, melons, etc. The soil is
rich sandy loan, and the elevation is |
about 800 feet above tidewater, making |
1900 feet higher than Cairo, and almost |
equal to the elevation of NATION and |
South must be valuable to the market |
gardener, for it must insure health to |
himself and family. While he will be
few days behind the Mobile gardens as
regards earliness, he will have the advan-
age of cheaper freight and some hours
n time-both of which are impor-
ant items in this branch Of rural indus
ry.
This point is about $40 miles south of
Chicago, or about thirty-eight hours-a
rife over day and a half. w 18th proper
packing and well-ventilated cars, at that
eason, vegetables will arrive in good
rider, while, month or two later, they
would be spoiled by heat. Divide
his $40 miles by II, and we have 20
lays for the season to makeits march from
dcComb City to Chicago. To the gar
Iener of Chicago, those 20 days, with his
lot beds, are days ana nights of watchful
are, and withal expensive; and his GU
umbers that come from his hOt-b beds give
i'm no better profit at So per dozen than
he late ield-crop at rs cents per 100.
5ut the Southern gardener grows his
ucum bers as a feld-crop in the open ;
round, and is thus enabled to put the +.
rst gathering on the Chicago market at +,
j a dozen, and thus ruin the business of
be gardener with his hot-beds. Potatoes ;
n the open ground at Chicago mature
bout July 20 to 25th; but the season at
1cComb City is seventy days in advance,
IL - III Il.
0 gardener is planting. Last spring l. .
lanted Early Rose April -, and July !
made the first shipment, and on the ;
7th the last of that lot, the vine then :
eng dead-ripe. That gave eighty-seven !
avs of growth. The Southern, gardener i,
t that rate would have been ready to = =
alp potatoes May /, which think, was !
ne case. Then, as the season marched !
orth, the supplies came from jackson, !
afro, Golden, Centralia, Champaign :
I'D Onaga; and to-day The gardens in the :,
ltitude of Chicago have the potato-market :
, themselves. :
1t is plain that we have Re
PERMANENT CHANGE
! the whole system of gardening; that
le hot-beds for the forcing of early vege-
lbles must be thrown aside, and those +
rown IN the open air, by feld-culture,
i'll take their place-beginning first a I
lousand miles away, and following the v
ne of march of the season, until the last o
rawberries come from the south shore i
Lake Superior, and ripe onions and b
pc potatoes fill the markets from the LIST {
May. :,
Chicago gardeners have located at all O
Ie points named, and more will follow. Ii
ot only to McComb City, but at a L
andred points between the two places. !,
Iithin a mile of me IL q Rn-ao.aI - =