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artichokes, flowers, 267 vegetable marrows, 2976 carrots, 

 264 bundles radishes, 14 gallons French beans, 12 gallons 

 currants, 95? punnets mustard, 27 pounds mushrooms, 

 rhubarb, 948 bushels sprout tops, 38 dozen leeks, 1150 plants, 

 11 gallons broad beans, 97 bundles sea-kale, 978 bundles 

 of asparagus-kale, 504 beet roots, 2913 gallons gooseberries, 

 219 bundles mint, 20 bundles sage, 18 bundles of fennel, 

 thyme, besides one cartload of stones. 



Mr. Vincent explains how he came to go into intensive 

 cultivation : " A few years ago the doctors said if I did not 

 go out more I could not live. Very well, just at that tune 

 there was an outcry about the land not paying for culti- 

 vation. I could not understand this, for as a boy at seven 

 years of age I had to go out to farm work, therefore I never 

 went to school. Anyhow I thought something was very 

 wrong if the land would not pay; so, to compel myself 

 to go out in the fresh ah*, I took an allotment on the 

 Sussex Downs to work in the early morning before my 

 daily duties began. I might say that I am a waiter, and 

 have been in my present situation forty years, so you can 

 understand I could not know much of land or garden 

 work. I could not see my way clear hi the few spare 

 hours I get to take more than half an acre of land to 

 garden early, especially as I started knowing practically 

 nothing about such work, but I can manage to do my half 

 acre all alone. 



"My garden is situated on the Brighton Race Hill ridge, 

 and twelve years ago it was but four inches of soil on chalk, 

 but I now have a foot of soil on the whole of the half acre, 

 and year by year my profits increase. 



"Yes, get the men to stop on the land in this country. 

 We ought not to have workhouses. Every man could live, 



