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result of the labour of thirty -six men and boys 

 only, under the supervision of one single gar- 

 dener the owner himself ; true that in Jersey, 

 and especially in Guernsey, everyone is a 

 gardener. About 1,000 tons of coke were burnt 

 to heat these houses. Mr. W. Bear, who had 

 visited the same establishment in 1886, was 

 quite right to say that from these thirteen acres 

 they obtained money returns equivalent to 

 what a farmer would obtain from 1,300 acres of 

 land. 



I hardly need say that Mr. Rider Haggard, 

 who visited Jersey and Guernsey in 1901, gave 

 of these two islands the same enthusiastic de- 

 scription as his predecessors. " I can only 

 state in conclusion," he wrote, " that for my 

 part, here (in Jersey) as in Guernsey, I was 

 amazed at the prosperity of the place. That 

 so small an area of land can produce so much 

 wealth is nothing short of astonishing. It is 

 true, as I have shown, that the inquirer hears 

 some grumblings and fears for the future ; but 

 when on the top of them he sees a little patch 

 of twenty-three and one-third acres of land, 

 such as I have instanced, and is informed 

 that quite recently it sold at an auction for 

 5,760, to be used, not for building sites but for 

 the cultivation of potatoes, he is perhaps jus- 

 tified in drawing his own conclusions." It need 



