Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-05-27
GARnRE ETnFP

A plot oil ground upon which berbs, plants,
sms al fruits and vegetables are grown ia =
garden, and growing these things Is garden
ing, and the products are garden stuff, just
a. We hsve bresdstnfs. What then is a
struck fsrmer?' The Bible and Shlkezpe re
aud other authorities can tell Us of farmers
and gardener, but who can find mention Il
a truck farmer? A wheat farmer would be
a farmer that grew wheat, hay farmer one
that grew hay, and 30 one; is then truck
farmer a farmer that grows trucks? They
have trucks on shipmssts and hagstaffs, and
use them in moving boxes and barrels IN
stores and warehouses, bot none OF them are
natural productions, not even a railway
truck. How then can there be truck-growers
or truck.farmers, or truck farming. "Io
truck" is to exchange, to barter, and truck
farmer must be e barteting, swapping
farmer, but thst does not answer to the
sense Of the word as used with reference to
the growth of garden stuff. There Is .
rather low, coarse use Of the word truck
used az q substitute for the word rubbish :"
and little, petty trading is sometimes called
| s'truckipg," but it has deprecatory sense,
as is eeen when the word struck" ia applied
! to the mesnuess of employers who pay in
| goods instead CT in cash, and working on
| truck" is Away esteemed poor busipess,
discreditable to Inc payer and humbling to
the receiver, 30 discreditable that IN some
places the law ferbids paying in trade. The
word garden has pleasant associations, even
| Paradise was a garden, and shall we push
that word aside, and all the poetry snd
beauty there is in it, for a word 30 coarse
and petty 10 its connections az "truckT by
whatever name it is called, however, growing
vegetables and other garden stutis has be
come an important business in the South
is rapidly increasing, and is producing
many changes. 1t promises to become
a valuable accessory, helping to break up thu
"all-cotion" habit, and TO introduce diversity
Of crops. Potatoes and strawberries are th'
two principal things at present, and the for
mer are already beginning TO appear in GU
city markets, and in ten more days the clan
of the hammer upon the barrel will be hear
| on Front street about Union, and the farmer
will be thropging in with their loaded carts
A good deal Of cabbage 10 grown in Leuisi
ana for the Northern markets, and much c
it is sold here--and we expect an occasions
cholera attack along with it-But sbou
Memphis little lie done with it beyond eur
plying the city market. Peas and beans ar
not very extensively grown around us 10
shipping. For some resson we do not groE
many rsspberriea, but the horticultural
say we could produce fne gooseberriei
and they are delightful fruit. We su;
pect more can be done about Memphi
in the way of small fruits than has bee
, accomplished yet. They, most Of them, re
quire some skill and knowledge OF the wa
of preparing the soil and so on. About Mem
phis potatoes are the favorite thing, an
when they produce early and are fine the
pay extremely well. The farmer who ar
derstands thoroughly the mystery OF pre-
ducing early and fine potatoes is always sur
of plenty OF bids for his produce and the to
price Of the market From accounts re
ceived we suspect that potato growing 10
the North has been heavily gone into thi
year, aud that growers whose crop ID lat
will meet with disappointment.