70 THE EVESHAM DISTRICT 



Council tenants on the 1 - acre lots are mostly 

 Evesham artisans and labourers, who work their 

 holdings in the evenings and on Saturdays. Many 

 of the men hold more than one lot, and these are 

 gardeners who have other land elsewhere, the Parish 

 Council lots making up the 4 or 5 acres which are 

 necessary for a living. 



When a lot changes hands it is usual for a new 

 tenant to be presented to the Council by the old 

 one, with whom he will have made a private 

 arrangement over the 'ingoing.' In cases, how- 

 ever, where the Council has given the tenant notice, 

 the Council pays the 'ingoing' to the outgoing 

 tenant, and if a new tenant is unable to pay it 

 straight off, he is charged 10 per cent, on the value 

 until he is able to do so. In this way many small 

 men are enabled to get a start on the land who 

 could not otherwise afford to pay the sum down, 

 which would often amount to 15 to 40 an acre. 



The plots are all cultivated in the usual manner 

 of the district as before described. To give a 

 general idea, the following plots were noted down : 



1. Two rows of plum-trees, 9 feet apart in the 

 row, down each side, with two gooseberry-trees 

 between each tree. The open space between was in 

 asparagus beds. 



2. Two rows of plum-trees as before, with 

 currants underneath and strawberries in the open. 



3. Beans, with radishes between. Brussels-sprouts 

 had just gone off. 



4. Strawberries with spring-onions between. 



