How to manage a Garden 



that where shelter of any kind already exists, the expense 

 of putting any up is thereby saved to the ingoer; and 

 before it is decided to plant shelter trees, it is better to 

 look well ahead and see that you do not plant what will 

 probably, owing to the terms of your lease or other cir- 

 cumstances, be of little use to you. This remark should 

 apply also to the planting of fruit-trees. Unless previous 

 arrangements with the landlord are arrived at it is quite 

 likely that, when you quit the holding, you will find your- 

 self insufficiently recompensed for the expenditure and 

 labour. We have unfortunately to take our land laws as 

 they stand ; and obviously they are largely in favour of the 

 landowner, which makes a real agreement, free from com- 

 pulsion on either side, a moral impossibility. 



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