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excellent, and gave the first year as much as 

 188, they would have given much more than 

 that had they been ready in the middle of 

 June, which would have been possible if the 

 frames and lights had been supplied in time. 



With all that, the results obtained during the 

 first year were really striking. All taken, Mr. 

 Smith shows that if the gardener has a one- 

 acre garden, and if 494 (say, 550) be spent 

 for 1,000 glass-bells, 300 lights and 100 frames, 

 500 mats, the water-supply, the packing- 

 shed, the fencing, the cart, horse and harness, 

 etc., and 413 (say, 450) for 500 tons of 

 manure, the rent, rates and water, and the 

 wages and salaries (250), the gross returns 

 for the first year would reach 300 (making 

 full allowance for " inexperience hi this special 

 work "). They would reach from 400 to 450 

 during the second year, there being greater 

 productiveness and a lower expenditure after 

 the loam has been made by heavy manuring, 

 and personal experience has been won, as well 

 as experience for a given locality. 



Taking a one-acre farm, of which only one- 

 third is used for a French garden, the first 

 year's expenditure for bells, lights, fencing, horse 

 manure, water, and rent and taxes woujd 

 be a little less than 300, and the returns by 

 the end of the first year would be about 150. 



