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season will set many up in secure positions, one or 

 two bad ones in succession will ruin the less 

 careful. There are, of course, the usual cases of 

 men who never get on, who grow the wrong crops 

 or fail to sell them to advantage. A proportion of 

 these will be hard-working, and fail through lack 

 of intelligence. It is to these men especially that 

 some form of supervision and co-operation for 

 disposal of their produce would be a boon, inas- 

 much as it would enable them to concentrate 

 themselves on production. 



Taking the district as a whole, you find a superior 

 race of working men, with their intelligence keenly 

 sharpened by working for their own advantage and 

 an inborn knowledge of their particular industry 

 two assets which enable them to work their 

 way up, It must be admitted that men starting 

 now cannot expect to get on with the rapidity that 

 others did in the past twenty or thirty years, as 

 competition and lower prices now make a consider- 

 able handicap. Nevertheless, a man who means to 

 work, and has a head on his shoulders, can do far 

 better for himself as a gardener than as a labourer 

 working for a daily wage. 



GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS. 



The state of things which one finds in the 

 Evesham district and along the Avon Valley 

 that is to say, hundreds of families getting a living 

 on 5 and 6 acres of land is so different from 

 any other part of England that it leads one to 



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