City Homes 

 On Country Lanes 



Philosophy and Practice of 



the Home- in-a-Garclen 



6yWuLiAM E. Smythe 



TRILOGY OF THE NEW EARTH 



THIS volume is the first of three books designed to 

 deal with one general theme. Together, it is hoped 

 they will present a practical programme for the making 

 of what, in a spiritual sense, at least, may well be char- 

 acterized as the NEW EARTH — which, of course, could 

 be nothing but new ways of using the Old Earth, to the 

 end that it may in time produce a great new crop of homes 

 and institutions. 



This is the programme: 



1. GARDEN CITIES for millions of country-minded 

 now hived in flats and apartments, yet hungering for some 

 touch of the open spaces and for homes all their own, even 

 while retaining their interest in urban business or em- 

 ployment. (The present book deals with this phase.) 



2. LITTLE-LANDS for those who, while looking to 

 the soil for a livelihood, think first of security and con- 

 tentment, and seek it in very intensive use of the land 

 and the cultivation of specialties yielding good income 

 from small holdings. This is not "'farming."' but little- 

 landing. It is a distinct department of life on the land- 

 one destined to take on vast proportions. 



3. RURAL SETTLEMENT, (40 acres and upward) 

 in accordance with the highest modern ideals as repre- 

 sented in various foreign countries, notably Australia, and 

 adapted and improved by California statesmanship. 



The broadest application of these principles involves the 

 creation of what is nothing less than a new Homestead 

 Policy and the making over of America on the soil. It 

 calls for governmental leadership, State and National. 



Each of these lines of development constitute an in- 

 tegral part of a programme which, taken as a whole, 

 should be the making and the saving of the America of 

 Tomorrow . 



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