Science and City Suburbs 



I propounded the idea to him ; and as he talked 

 I first felt very discouraged, and then very resolute. 

 If this is his idea of the richer classes, did there 

 require to be another evidence of the need of a 

 greater knowledge, which would lead to a more 

 just appreciation ? So I took heart, recognised 

 that such misunderstanding could only be broken 

 down by degrees, not by artificial methods, but by 

 the more simple means of a common interest ; and 

 the common interest in the Garden Suburb will 

 be the time-honoured one of a garden, and the 

 love of flowers and fruits and growing changing 

 things. 



THE VALUE OF GARDENS 



In the Garden Suburb every house, however 

 small, will stand in a garden, which, as a rule, 

 will be worked by the tenant himself, but some- 

 times, as in the case of clerks, women, or persons 

 whose bread-winning employment takes all the 

 daylight hours, it will be managed under a Co- 

 operative system to ensure common benefits. 



Mr. Cadbury has found that " the average yield 

 per garden of one-eighth of an acre per annum, 

 after making allowance for all out-goings, proved 

 to be is. i id. each per week. This gives a return 

 of ^59, 8s. 8d. an acre per annum. Thus the 

 gardens, while providing healthful recreation to 

 the cultivators, yield, as a result, a wholesome fruit 

 and vegetable diet for the families free of all cost. 

 This, it need not be pointed out, effects a very 

 appreciable economy in the family budgets." 



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