52 AWAKENING OF ENGLAND. 



two's time he will be heard to complain that 

 market gardening does not pay, and Evesham 

 will see him no more. 



Mr. Raymond Webb will tell you that the 

 man who stays to make a success of market 

 gardening is the man who has laboured from 

 early days when that stern godmother — 

 Necessity — sent him out to win sustenance 

 from the soil. An estate plan will show you 

 how some names quickly disappear from the 

 innumerable one and two-acre strips, whilst 

 others will be repeated yearly. Now and 

 again a woman's name significantly appears. 



But even the labourer has sometimes to suc- 

 cumb. To be suddenly plunged into a highly 

 competitive business after spending many years 

 as somebody's servant, throws many back again 

 into the ranks of hired labourers. The failure 

 of the young middle-class man is not at all 

 astonishing, as it seems to be an article of faith 

 with middle-class parents to send the duffer 

 of the family to work on the land, where not 

 only hard plodding is required, but also, in the 

 stress of modern competition, a keen business 

 aptitude. 



Any one who is under the strange delusion 

 that the rural worker is congenitively slow 



