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middle. The cultivable area is thus 4,500 square feet. 

 There are no brick walls, but brick pillars and boards 

 are used for front walls. Hot-water heating is pro- 

 vided, but is only used occasionally, to keep off the 

 frosts in winter the crops being early potatoes (which 

 require no heating), followed by tomatoes. The latter 

 are Mr. B.'s speciality. Catch crops of radishes, etc., 

 are taken. The cost of the greenhouse, without the heat- 

 ing apparatus, is 10s. per running foot of greenhouse, 

 which makes 150 for one-eighth of an acre under glass, 

 or a little less than 7d. per glass-roofed square foot. 



The crops are : potatoes, four cabots per perch 

 that is, three-quarters of a ton of early potatoes from 

 the greenhouse ; and tomatoes, in the culture of 

 which Mr. B. attains extraordinary results. He puts 

 in only 1,000 plants, thus giving to his plants more 

 room than is usually given ; and he cultivates a corru- 

 gated variety which gives very heavy crops but does 

 not fetch the same prices as the smooth varieties. 

 In 1896 his crop was four tons of tomatoes, and so it 

 would have been in 1897 each plant giving an average 

 of twenty pounds of fruit, while the usual crop is from 

 eight to twelve pounds per plant. 



The total crop was thus four and three-quarter tons 

 of vegetables, to which the catch crops must be added 

 thus corresponding to 85,000 Ib. per acre (over 

 90,000 Ib. with the catch crops). I again omit the 

 money returns, and only mention that the expendi- 

 ture for fuel and manure was about 10 a year, and 

 that the Jersey average is three men, each working 

 fifty-five hours a week (ten hours a day), for every acre 

 under glass. 



The Scilly Islands. These islands also give a beauti- 

 ful illustration of what may be obtained from the 

 soil by an intensive cultivation. When shipping and 



