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Admiring Her own Work. 



more innocently employed. 

 A portion of the home gar- 

 den might be given up to 

 each child, and some very 

 creditable results ensue. 

 These little gardeners take 

 quite a pride in pointing 

 out the results of their skill 

 to friends and relatives. 

 They are so fond of any- 

 thing grown by themselves 

 and watch so anxiously a 

 flower on the point of 

 blooming. 



Give the Boys a Bit of Land To work as they think 

 fit and to dispose of the produce on the same terms. Both 

 boys and girls are all the more healthy, independent, and 

 industrious when they earn something, and feel that they 

 have a perfect right to their earnings. 



Market Gardening on a Big Scale. Chinamen do 

 not control the market garden business in other lands. 

 Their skill is not of the kind which surpasses that of the 

 European systems of vegetable gardening. Their efforts 

 with fruit are very defective. The occupation of market 

 gardening offers decided inducements in Australia for skill 

 and capital. To keep up the immense supplies required by 

 London and the great cities of Britain generally, and also 

 Paris, New York, and elsewhere, as well as our own profit- 

 able market gardens, they are the work of skilful white 

 men, who succeed by the unstinted use of manures. Large 

 capital is employed. A case may be cited of a garden of 

 85 acres. The soil is sandy. Everything on the place is 

 conducted in a strictly business manner ; accurate accounts 

 are kept, so that the exact cost of rent, labor, interest on 

 capital, manures, seeds, labor and marketing and returns 

 for each crop may be ascertained. Only such kinds as prove 

 most marketable are grown. The yield of a year was 5425 



