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of Penzance, in Cornwall ; thorn of St. Neotg, 

 in Huntingdonshire ; Spotter, in Lincolnshire, 

 where the agricultural depression- we ape told 

 by Mr, Bider Haggard was not so badly felt 

 as elsewhere on account of market-gardening; 

 Benington, in the game county, where the soil 

 is a rich loam with gilty. subsoil, and where all 

 sorts of vegetables, potatoes, and flower-bulbs 

 are grown on a large scale, together with wheat.* 

 Orpington is a well-known centre for market- 

 gardening, as well as for fruit-growing, and 

 in this district culture under glass has also 

 taken lately some extension, 



There are many other interesting centres of 

 market-gardening, especially in the neighbour-' 

 hoods of all large cities, but I will mention only 

 one more^namely, Potton, in Huntingdon- 

 shire. It is we are told by Mr. Haggard - 

 "a stronghold of small cultivators who grow 

 vegetables upon holdings of land varying in 

 size from one up to twenty acres, or even more," 



* Rural England, ii,, pp. 76, 212, Spalding, also in Lincoln- 

 shire, is another centre for the trade in spring flowers, as well 

 as for intensive farming, co-operative small-holding having been 

 introduced there, by the Provident and Small-Holdings Club 

 (same work, ii., pp. 238-240). More than 1,000 acres are now 

 given to the growing of flowers an industry which was intro- 

 duced only fifteen years ago, when it came from Holland, On 

 p. 242 of the same work the reader will find some interesting 

 information about a new " niutualjst " venture, the Lincoln 

 Equitable Co-operative Society, 



