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or using them as poultry-runs, pigsties, or stores 

 for produce. The principal crops grown are wheat 

 and potatoes, also peas and beans. Many of the 

 plots are laid down to pasture, and there are some 

 grass orchards, but the fruit-trees do not seem to 

 flourish. Several of the original holders tried 

 market-garden cultivation, and took their produce 

 into Ledbury and Malvern ; but there remains only 

 one of this type at present, who is also a carrier, 

 and buys up produce from the others. 



THE HERRINGSGATE ESTATE AT RICKMANS- 



WORTH. 



This estate, which is situated about four miles 

 north-west of Rickmansworth, extended to 103 

 acres, and was originally divided into thirty-four 

 allotments. The cost of the land and legal ex- 

 penses was 2,420 ; building, etc., came to 7,316. 

 It has now become entirely residential, the lots 

 being disposed of at considerable profit to Londoners. 

 Twenty-five or thirty years ago many of the plots 

 could have been purchased at 30 apiece, subject 

 to the rent-charge. Now, with the old buildings, 

 many plots fetch as much as 1,000, and one 

 4-acre allotment, with a modern house, has recently 

 changed hands at 1,700. 



GENERAL REVIEW OF FEARGUS O'CONNOR'S 

 ESTATES. 



In taking a general review of all these estates, it 

 will be seen that, while Dodford and Minster Lovell 

 have been on the whole successful, the results at 



