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consecutive issues ending with that of November 26 and summa- 

 rised by the author. 



As for the gross returns of a well managed half-an-acre 

 (2023 sq. met) garden Mr. Smith puts them down at 300 and 

 after the third year when the cost of manure would be reduced, 

 he thinks that the total expenditure, including wages would be 

 about 195 leaving 105 for the working occupier. 



This seems a handsome sum for half an acre of land; but it 

 is not much for covering the interest on a capital of over 300 

 and paying the occupier for arduous work and almost constant 

 attention. 



One could take a dairy farm of 40 acres (16 hectares) with the 

 same capital, and probably have as much profit with a tenth of 

 the worry. 



Mr. Newsome in his handbook i; French Gardening " (F. Steel 

 & Co. London) calculates the first years expenses on one acre when 

 a French expert is employed at 150 per annum and three other 

 men at i per week " at least 1600 " and puts the return al 600 

 to 700, After the first year he also thinks that the expense would 

 drop to 200 per acre while the returns would increase. 



A. B. S. FRASER. A French Garden at Withdean, Patcham. 



(The Country Home, February, 1910) Review of Reviews. 

 March, 1910. 



Captain Fraser has sunk some 3000 pounds in the venture, 

 which, he says, is financially a great success. American tools, 

 obtained from France, are used; they are lighter than those used 

 in England. In French gardening a continual moving goes on, 

 from frames to cloches, and from cloches to frames. 



T. NEWSOME. Gold producing soil. French gardening or in- 

 tensive cultivation on the French system. London and 

 Stroud, Frederick Steel & Co. Ltd., 1910, p. 83. 



This little bo^k aims at stimulating interest in the much talked 

 of French gardens, to put before the public in a cheap and po- 

 pular form an outliii* of what the so-called new method of cultiv- 

 ation is, and to give sufficient details in regard to the apparatus 

 used and its cost so that anyone reading it will be enabled to start 

 tjie system on a small or large scale. 



