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neighbourhood. By this means, expenses would 

 be minimised, because requisites and manure would 

 be purchased in large quantities and then divided. 

 Likewise, the produce of all the small colonies could 

 be bulked on the railway, and a reduction in cost 

 would ensue, similar to what we see so admirably 

 carried out in other countries. 



Some of the ladies would find advisory work 

 remunerative, for help is needed in small and large 

 gardens. How often the owner is puzzled as to 

 whether the pruning of fruit trees or roses has been 

 correctly done ! but if he engaged an advisory 

 expert his uneasiness would end ; for she would 

 either give the proper directions for pruning and 

 see them carried out or would do it herself. 



Similarly the plan-drawer or garden designer 

 would find many people who welcome a colour- 

 scheme herbaceous border, where successions of 

 lovely flowers keep up an unfailing display from 

 April till November. She could submit a plan on 

 paper and if it were approved could superintend 

 the planting, so as to have broad irregular groups 

 of pale blues and yellows carrying the eye past an 

 infinitesimal touch of white to stronger, larger 

 masses of reds and bright yellow. 



One of this party of friends, the so-called House- 

 keeper, would have her hands busily occupied dur- 

 ing the fruit season, picking, storing, and utilising 

 apples, pears, and small fruits and preserving any 

 that there would be a sale for. If a larger business 

 could be opened out, then vegetable-bottling might 

 be undertaken. 



In contemplating this very ideal existence for 



