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The same, however, cannot yet be said of 

 the culture maraichere of the French market- 

 gardeners which is being introduced now into 

 this country. Many attempts have been made 

 in this direction in different parts of the country 

 with varied degrees of success ; but little or 

 nothing is known about the results. An at- 

 tempt on a large scale was made, as is known, 

 by some Evesham gardeners. Having read 

 about this sort of culture in France, and the 

 wonderful results obtained by it, some of the 

 Evesham gardeners went to Paris with the 

 intention of learning that culture from the 

 Paris maraichers. Finding that impossible, they 

 invited a French gardener to Evesham, gave 

 him three-quarters of an acre, and, after he had 

 brought from his Paris marais his glass-bells, 

 frames and lights, and, above all, his know- 

 ledge, he began gardening under the eyes of 

 his Evesham colleagues. " Happily enough," he 

 said to an interviewer, " I do not speak English ; 

 otherwise I should have had to talk ah 1 the time 

 and give explanations, instead of working. 

 So I show them my black trousers, and tell 

 them in signs : ' Begin by making the soil as 

 black as these trousers, then everything will 

 be all right.' " Of course, to be profitable, 

 immense quantities of stable manure are re- 

 quired, as also immense numbers of glass- 



