El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-12-16

growing Of products belonging to hot
latttudes. Electric lettuce is forced
for Christmas on a considerable scale
near Boston, under arc lights, the
plants being thus compelled to work
by night as well as by day. A hardship
Z Tor them. perhaps, but when the prod
vegetable has no rights which the com
respect.
The dollhouse lettuce Of the north
however, is seriously rlvaled by lettuce
grown in the south. in cold frames
that is to say, under glass sashes. Great
Quantities OF this cold frame lettuce
are shipped north to meet the Christ
mas demand; and the same may be
said Of tomatoes. which I'm the semi
tropical climate Of southern FIori ia are
now being raised out of doors. on a
very considerable scale. entering into
competition with the hothcuse tona-
toes Of the north They are produced
more cheaply than the glass grown to-
matOes.
The markets of our northern and
eastern cities are supplied with celery
largely from farms on Long Island and
In the neighbOrhoOd of Boston. Such
celery is kept in cold storage during
the early winter in order that the de-
mand may be continuously met until
just before Christmas the fresh celery
begins to come in from Florida and
California
Modern Methods Help YusetIde Tables.
Thus it will be seen that nowadays,
thanks TO modern improvements in the
way of glass gardening we are able
to have on our tables at YuIetide near
~ all Of the vegetables which would
be obta1nable at other seasons of the
year Already We have come to look
upon this as quite matter OF course
but only half a century ago it would
have been regarded as well nigh mi
raculOus.
Some OF the finest of the grapes that
appear in the New York city markets
at Christmas time, are grown i'm the
glass houses of John Jacob Aston at
Ithinebeck- Hudson. They easily fetch
$3.50 Q pound. In this way the million
atre dtsDoses Of large surplus which
he could not otherwise get rid of to
advantage.
Within recent years it has come to
be the fashion for very wealthy men to
have farms of their own producing
eggs, butter, vegetables, and other
things for sale. Thus. for example.
Howard Wiuets, of White Plains n
Y, multimillionaire, sencs his milk
to market. and likewise, p.glIngs But
the specially of the rich mans farm
IS 'primeurs' "a French term signify
ing anything out of season. Alanv of
the highest priced delicacies in the wav
of vegetables and fruits offered in the
Christmas market are the output of
the gardens Of our predatory plutes
NurSerymen raise strawberries for
Christmas in hothOuses and make Ham I
burg grapes a supplementary croD
Each bunch of these wonderful cranes I
" ttell II peEllla 10 ilDeu. IS tnlnneQ' T
by the skilful application Of SCISSORS. I
and from that time on is kent I'm a
paper bag 70 exclude insects and fun .
gus germs. The fruit rich people buy I
must have no defects. large quantities [
0f the same graDes arrive from Eu-
rope in time for the Christmas market.
IN wrapDinCs OF cotton wool. and fur
her protected by dried seaweed
Strawberries From the West
The millionaire exDec-s to have
strawberries on his Christmas table
lutte as a matter of course. IT, ev come
rom the irrigated valleys of Califor-
ia and other parts of the far west I
md every one Of them is absolutely
lean and perfect. They are never al
owed 10 come into contac: with the
arth-this being prevented Nv COW
ring the patch in spring with clean
traW' As the plants develop. they grow