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None can be established without the written consent of every 

 trustee, and the trustees are bound to suppress saloons altogether, 

 unless such suppression leads to greater evils. They have the right 

 to revoke licenses and to prescribe the hours of sale of intoxicating 

 liquors, the quantities, and all other features of the business. More- 

 over, all the net profits must go to counter attractions. 



I might have gotten hundreds of beautiful garden photo- 

 graphs at Letchworth or Port Sunlight, but I have chosen all my 

 illustrations from Bournville because I believe its gardening system 

 is, on the whole, the best. At Port Sunlight the front yards may 

 be even more brilliant, because they are cared for by the town, 

 but the back yards are not up to so high a standard, and, in my 

 opinion, it is not best to take away from the individual the priv- 

 ilege of caring for his own front yard. At Bournville, the Village 

 Trust lays out the flower beds in the front yard, but if the tenant 

 does not like the plan he may change it. At Letchworth, plants are 

 sold by regular nurserymen at regular rates, but Bournville gives its 

 tenants a chance to buy plants, seeds, and bulbs at reduced rates. 



I doubt if there is any place in the world where the gardens are 

 uniformly as good as at Bournville. One great reason for this is 

 that gardening is compulsory. There is a clause in every contract 

 which says that every tenant must keep his place up to a certain 

 standard of neatness and beauty. This is no hardship, for if a 

 man is too sick or busy to dig his garden he can have this, or any 

 other garden work, done for him cheaply. In the whole history 

 of Bournville only two gardens have been neglected. No tenant 

 will neglect his place when he knows that there are one hundred 

 applicants for houses on the waiting list all the time. 



Another reason for the enchanting beauty of Bournville 

 is that the Village Trust has a gardening department. The head 



