HORTICULTURE 



LECTURE I 



THE ADVANTAGES OF ALLOTMENTS AND HIGH 

 CULTURE OF THE LAND 



THE advantages of cultivating a plot of ground of 

 any size, from the few poles of an ordinary cottage 

 garden up to an acre or any larger extent are various ; 

 but the results differ in the most extraordinary way. 



In some instances we have excellent crops of all 

 kinds, a full and bountiful yield of great advantage 

 to the tillers ; while in others the crops are inferior 

 or unprofitable, and of little or no use to their 

 owners. 



Observe, the staple of the land is alike in the 

 same field, in which the good crops and the bad are 

 side by side ; the rain falls and the sun shines on 

 all alike. Why then the difference ? Clearly it is a 

 question of men and their methods, and nothing 

 else. 



The good results are the direct outcome of sound 

 management intelligent routine. The unprofitable 

 crops represent mismanagement in the form of either 

 neglect or lack of knowledge on the part of the 

 workers. 



