The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1901-12-15
NEW YORK'S GREAT GARDEN.
1T REACHES NOW TO FLORIDA
AND THE PACIFIC.

seme Vegetables and Fruits II supplies
Nearly Al the Year Round seasons
for the Others Greatly Extended Tho
Prices Of These Luxuries Lower, Too.
sLima beans,' said a man acquainted
with the green vegetable trade. were
received In this city on Dec. 0 from Florida,
and on Dec. II from California. There are,
In fact, comparatively few green vege-
tables that cannot now be had the year
round, grown In the open air, somewhere
within the borders Of our own country.
when this all-the-year trade in green
vegetables began to assume considerable
proportions, fifteen or twenty years or
90 ago, green peas were the great early
vegetable luxury, but now We have beans
and squash and no on. just the same III
midwinter as in midsummer, IL one wants
to pay for them. As to the cost OF these
things,it is now only about half what II once
was, and the consumption OF them has
enormously increased.
~Things that were once considered high
Injuries and were consumed by compare
lively few. are now eaten by many people.
The greatly increased demand resulted
wears ago in enormously increased pro-
duction and that in vastly improved faciii-
ties for transportation. And the methods
In shipping have in recent years been very
greatly improved, though here there is
room for great improvement yet.
s'Florida Is the most advanced among the
Eastern seaboard States in this respect.
She sends stuff In such condition and in
such packages that it comes in good order
and can all be sold after IL gets here; no
waste. There's money in this way OF doing
business. OF course there are shippers
m other States as well, that send their stun
TO market in perfect shape. Blu yet Florida
is on the whole now the most advanced
In the art of shipping.
"A Complementary novel thing in this
business consists in the practice, which
has sprung up within six or eight years,
OF working the ATTITUDES both ways. For
merly when we had had the last OF a thing,
grown at the North, in the early autumn.
we waited. with a blank space intervening,
for the next of this to come from the far
South, in the winter. But now after finish
ing at the North we begin again at Norfolk.
where the temperature conditions still
permit, with crops planted just to meet this
requirement.
these fall crops from this mid-region
help us through that season till we begin to
get the things from the far South. which
we get now earlier than Yer, and thus the
gap is closed and there is no season in which
we do not get open-air-grown green vege-
tables of some kinds.
All this Is true Of many green fruits,
as well. which we get now the year round
or In greatly extended seasons. These
fruits come. it may be, from California or
from the various States along the Atlantic
coast. On this seaboard the Florida fruit
Ia first and fruit ripens with the advancing
sun In one State after another, farther n
farther North until. with the summer sun
falling here, We get them from our old-time
md once virtually exclusive local and
~neighboring sources OF supply.
these early fruits, like the early vege-
tables, are cheaper now h they once
were and for the same reasons, and yet
some of them, as for example, January
Strawberries, are still beyond slender purses.
On the other hand some Of them have now
been brought within the reach Of all as for
example the noble peaches that in good
years, we get in such splendid profusion
from Georgia, weeks, IL not months. before
we had even begun to dream Of peaches in
the old days, and this fine and beautiful
fruit IL so plentiful that it is sold for little
n anything above ordinary prices. And
all this Georgia peach business has come
sb-yat practically within half a dozen years.
Coming back TO green vegetables for
Jus. a minute, one among those not now
Supplied the year around Is that decided
luxury, green corn; though the period
during which this may be had Is steadily
lengthening, and il extends now, in fact,
from February to frost. Corn will no
doubt be. In time, included among the
vegetables To be had the year around. The
February green corn that We get, which is
not much yet. comes from Florida.
-Then In May, VI begin TO get corn, in
some quantities, comparatively speaking,
from North Carolina. this being something
new. Then. early In June, We begin to get
South Jersey corn, q then n keeps com
ing 20 US from farther and farther north
iill we begin 10 get Il from our own actual
latitude. from Long Island n from
northern Jersey, and New York state, up
the North River and from various regions
a. far north NJ the state 81 Maiue.
-ho. you ace. counting the present green
corn scason, not a. from February 20 frost.
for We get "a yst ,hut little corn from FLORIDA.
IL l. practically from May 10 frosi. sii
months OF Whereabouts