38 HOW THE GARDEN WAS MADE 



made by taking the top spit off and stacking it 

 upside down for some months, it would be possible, 

 with forethought, to make considerable profit. 



Where, however, as at Ragged Lands, educa- 

 tional work is carried on and combined with market- 

 garden sales, it takes many more years to achieve 

 success, and always requires some outside support. 

 So many things, not in themselves profitable, have 

 to be provided for the benefit of the students. 

 For instance, a lecture-room is a necessity, and 

 expert lecturers and teachers have to be engaged. 

 A few specimens of melons, vines, peaches, and 

 such things, which are only paying if grown in 

 masses, must be provided in order to teach the 

 future gardeners. Instead of concentrating all 

 energy upon the cultivation of such varieties of 

 fruit trees and choice vegetables as will be suited 

 to the market selected, it is necessary, where there 

 is a College, to have many different varieties of 

 apples and all kinds of vegetables, so that students 

 may become familiar with them. Ornamental 

 gardens, too, have to be included, to show garden 

 design, and they must be filled with decorative 

 flowers of every description such as are to be found 

 in most gardens, otherwise employers might later 

 on be disappointed with the knowledge and ex- 

 perience of their women-gardeners. It does not 

 always follow that these flowers, effective as they 

 are in a garden, are good for picking and packing. 



Thus it will be seen that the market-garden has 

 to be subordinate to the educational branch of 

 the College, and a very considerable sum of money 

 is set aside each year to make good the damage often 



