The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1902-01-22
GOTHAM'S BIG GARDEN
IT REACHES NOW TO FLORIDA
AND THE PACIFIC.

IIiiiiu DeunS, sdiu " liiuu ucuuHiuleu
with the green vegetable trade, "were
received in this city ON December o
from Florida. and OH December IL
from California. There are, in fact,
comparatively few green vegetables
that cannot now he had the year
round, grown in the open air, some
where within the borders of our own
country.
"When this all-the- year-rrade in green
vegetables began to assume considera-
bic proportions, fifteen or twenty years
or so ago, green peas were the great
early vegetable luxury, but now we
have beans and squash and so on, just
the same in mldwlnter as in midsum-
mer, If one wants to pay for them.
As to the cost of these things, It Is
now only about half what it once was.
and the consumption of them has enor-
mously increased.
Things that were once considered
high luSurles and were consumed by
comparatively few. are now eaten by
many people. The greatly increased
demand resulted years ago In enor-
mously increased production, and that
in vastly improved facilities for trans
portation. And the methods i'm ship
ping have in recent years been very
greatly improved. though here there is
room for great improvement yet.
FLORIDA is the most advanced among
the Eastern seaboard States in this
respect. She sends stuff i'm such con
dition and in such packages that IL
comes I'm good order and can all he
sold after 1t gets here; no waste.
There's money in this way of doing
business. OF course there are shippers
In other States as well, that send their
stuff TO market in perfect shape, but
yet Florida Is ON the whole now the
most advanced in the art of shipping
"A comprehensively novel thing In
this business consists in the practice,
which has sprung up within six or
eight years, of working the ATTITUDES
both ways. Formerly when we had
had the last of thing, grown nt the
North, in the early autumn, we waited,
with n blank space intervening, for the
next of this TO come from the far
South, In the winter. But now after
finishing 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-re-
gion help us through that season un-
til we begin to get things from the far
South. which we now get earlier than
ever, and thus the gap Is closed ana
there Is no season in which we do not
get open-air-grown green vegetables of
some kinds.
"All this Is true of many green fruits
as well, which we now get the year
round or in greatly extended seasons.
These fruits come, it may he, from
California, or from the various States
along the Atlantic coast. ON tnis sea-
board the Florida fruit Is first, and
fruit ripens with the advancing sun
In one State after another, farther and
farther North UNTIL with the summer
sun failing here, we get them from
our Old-tlme and once virtually eXclu-
sive local and neighborlng sources of
supply.
"rhese early fruits, like the early
vegetables, are now cheaper than they
once We're. 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 exam
pie, the noble peaches that in good
years we get in such splendid profus-
ion from Georgia, weeks. If not
months, before we had even begun to
dream Of peaches in the old days. and
this fine and beautiful fruit Is so plen-
tiful that II Is sold for little II anything
above ordinary prices. And all this
Georgia peach business has come about
practically with half dozen years.
Coming back to green vegetables
for just q minute, one among those not
now supplied the year around is that
decided luxury, green coru; though
the period through which this may he
had is steadily lcngthening. and 1t ex-
tends now. In fact, from February 10
| 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 moi
| much yet, comes from Florida.
"Thcn in May we begin to get corn In
some quantities comparatively speak
| ing. from North Carolina. this being
something new. Then, early in June
we begin to get South Jersey corn, and
then it keeps coming TO US farther and
| farther north till we begin to get il
| from our own actual latitude, from
| Long Island and from North Jersey
and New York State, up the North
River, and from various regions as
far north as the State Of Baine.
80. you see. counting the present
| green corn season, not as from Febru
AIRY TO frost, for we get, as yet, but
little corn from Florida, 1t is practical
ly from May TO frost; six months, OIL
thereabOuts. New York Sun.