The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1902-03-11
GOTHAM'S BIG GARDEN
1T REACHES NOW TO FLORIDA
AND THE PACIFIC.

Some Vegetables and Fruits II Supplies
Nearly All the Year Round - Seasons
Fer the Others Greatly i2xtcnded-The
Prices OF These Luxurics Lower, Too
Lima beans" said man acquainted
with the green vegetable trade, were
received i'm this city on December .
from Florida, and on December II
from California. There are. in fact
comparatively few green vegetables
that cannot now be had the year
round, grown I'm the open air, some
where within the borders of our own
country.
when this all-the year-trade in green
vegetables began 10 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 midwinter as in midsum-
mer, il 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 luXuries 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 in ship
ping have in recent years been very
greatly improved. though here there is
room for great Improvement yet
e. Il.
the Eastern seaboard States in this
respect. She sends stuff in such con
dition and in such packages that it
comes in good order and can all be
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 we'll 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 n thing, grown ut the
North. in the early autumn. we waited,
with 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 midre-
gion help us through that season I'M
til we begin to get things from the far
South, which we now get earlier than
ever, and thus the gap is closed and
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
rs well, which we now get 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 rnis 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 falling here, we get them from
our old-time and once virtually eXclu-
siye local and neighboring sources of
supply.
These early fruits, like the carly
vegetables are now cheaper than 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 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 i'm the old days, and
this fine and beautiful fruit is so plen-
tiful that it is sold for little if 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 a minute, one among those not
now supplied the year around is that
decided luxury, green corn; though
the period through which this may be
had is steadily lcngthening and it OK
tends now. in fact from February to
frost. Corn will no doubt be. i'm 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 i'm May we begin to- get corn jon
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 tin we begin to get &c
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
rar north as the state of Baiuc
$50 you sec. counting the present
green corn season not US from Fcbru.
AIRY to frost for we get as yet but
little corn from Florida. &c is practical
ly from May 90 FROST Sis months, or
thcrcub0uts New TorA Suu
American Fogs.
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