Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 December 1881 — Market Gardening in Virginia. [ARTICLE]

Market Gardening in Virginia.

Norfolk is the center of southern market gardening, which supplies the north with early vegetables and.fruits, and there were shipped from there to Philadelphia and New York in the past year 200,000 heads of cabbage; 3,500,000 quarts of strawberries 4,000 pounds of asparagus; 500 barrels of artichokes; 50,000 of beans; 5,000 of beets; 4,000 quarts of blackberries; 12,000 quarts of huckleberries; 4,000 quarts of raspberries; 11,000 quarts gooseberries; 20,000 quarts of cherries; 20,000 barrels of cabbage: 30,000 barrels of cudftmberr; 2,000 barrels of lettuce; 20,000 barrels of onions; 60,000 barrels of peaches; 65,000 barrels of peas; 11,000 bushels of pears; 400,000 barrels of Irish potatoes; 8,000 bushels of sweet potatoes; 3,000 bushels of tomafoesr; 800,OJX) watemelons'and 800,000 pounds of grapes.