"Every encouragement should be given to the movement on 

 foot for the purpose of creating a National Union of Allotment 

 Holders. Those little cultivators did splendidly last year and, on 

 what appears to be good data, it is estimated that they came in to the 

 extent of nearly three-quarters of a million persons. Although it is 

 not possible to estimate the addition this meant to the food supply 

 of the country, it must be extraordinary. 



" England is a land of good gardeners, and the skill, industry and 

 ingenuity with which the most unpromising plots were attacked 

 augurs well for the possibilities attending an extension of the move- 

 ment. Those who have watched serious elderly men and laughing 

 school children working with equal ardour at the unpromising allot- 

 ment will not only be highly pleased with the results, but filled with 

 confidence that soil of any kind can be attacked with the certainty of 

 making it contribute to the food supply of the country." Country 

 Life. 



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