ABSTRACT
Vegetable gardening offers such a variety of species that a full accommodation to the ecological fluctuations can be obtained. The vegetables and flowers which thrive during certain periods of the year are also those which are apt to fetch the lowest market price during these very periods. Charles J. Grant, in his survey, points out that such is the variety of vegetables grown and the rapid adaptations to a fluctuating market, it is difficult to describe a typical rotation. The more normal procedure is to plant according to market demand with a general emphasis on Chinese vegetables in the summer months and European-type vegetables in winter. The comparatively small farm of the Wang family is planted with loofah and string beans during the first half of the year, and in the latter half it is planted with vegetables like flowering cabbage and white cabbage, and also, at this time of the year, flowers, mostly Chrysanthemum.
