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bushels to the twenty-one feet square. And 

 when chance brought me, in 1896, in company 

 with a local gardener, to a tiny, retired " vinery " 

 of a veteran grower, I could see there, and admire, 

 what a lover of gardening can obtain from so 

 small a space as the two-thirds of an acre. Two 

 small " houses " about forty feet long and twelve 

 feet wide, and a third formerly a pigsty, twenty 

 feet by twelve -contained vine trees which many 

 a professional gardener would be happy to have 

 a look at ; especially the whilom pigsty, fitted 

 with " Muscats " ! Some grapes (in June) were 

 already in full beauty, and one fully understands 

 that the owner could get in 1895, from a local 

 dealer, 4 for three bunches of grapes (one of 

 them was a " Colmar," 13f Ib. weight). The 

 tomatoes and strawberries in the open air, as 

 well as the fruit trees, all on tiny spaces, were 

 equal to the grapes ; and when one is shown 

 on what a space half a ton of strawberries can 

 be gathered under proper culture, it is hardly 

 believable. 



It is especially in Guernsey that the simplifica- 

 tion of the greenhouse must be studied. Every 

 house in the suburbs of St. Peter has some sort 

 of greenhouse, big or small. All over the island, 

 especially in the north, wherever you look, you 

 see greenhouses. They rise amid the fields and 

 from behind the trees ; they are piled upon one 



