58 AWAKENING OF ENGLAND. 



and since the large importation of foreign 

 fruit there has been ever so much more fruit 

 grown in Evesham." 



I attribute the greater intelligence of the 

 worker on the land around Evesham, compared 

 to those working as isolated units on farms, 

 not only to working for themselves, but also to 

 living socially within a township. The mental 

 stimulus gained by living close to one another 

 is of great benefit to those who spend laborious 

 days in the open. 



It is said that there are more bicycles in 

 Evesham in proportion to its population than 

 in any other town in England. The system 

 of renting land in separate strips, often at 

 some distance one from the other, explains 

 the necessity for making up on the revolving 

 wheel the loss of time occasioned by not having 

 a compact holding around the homestead. It 

 is fortunate, perhaps, for progressive civilisation, 

 that each little strip has not been owned by 

 the cultivator. We might then have had a 

 congested district similar to that in Donegal 

 or County Galway. 



The growers (or their landlords) have saved 

 themselves one expense, which is always a 

 source of trouble, and leads sometimes to neigh- 



