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Rouillard, Mr Gladstone, Mrs Goodford, Sir Charles Napier, 

 Sir Thomas More, Thomas Speed, Troubadour, Velocipede. 

 To the last-named variety Messrs Henderson attach the 

 description, " Beautiful scarlet, splendid bedder and winter 

 bloomer." 



COTTAGE GAKDENS ASSOCIATION. 



[From "The Garden? December gth 1882,^. 517.] 



1 SHALL not be surprised if in this matter I am met 

 at the outset with the remark 'that cottage gardens 

 already exist and have long existed in many of our towns 

 and villages, and that their past history, with few excep- 

 tions, is not such as to encourage any new movement in 

 this direction. I should at once admit the force of this 

 remark if applied to these associations as they have been 

 constituted and managed in the past, and rejoin that I 

 propose to move on entirely new ground, where the 

 objections applicable to the past do not necessarily 

 apply. 



Cottage garden associations have hitherto been con- 

 sidered too much a matter of charity or patronage, pet 

 schemes of local magnates, patronised by a class, encum- 

 bered with rules and trammelled by influences, religious, 

 political, or social, which, if good in themselves, do not 

 leave the tenant with that freedom and independence 

 which is not only necessary to the full enjoyment of his 

 holding, but which he is justly entitled to claim in return 

 for a fair rental duly paid. 



In the scheme which I am about to submit for con- 

 sideration I would lay aside all idea of charity and 

 patronage, and seek to establish opportunities for im- 

 proving health and storing food similar to those which 

 the friendly society and the savings bank offer for the 

 storing of money. I would accomplish this end by means 

 of an association under the Limited Liabilities Company 



