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Gardening for Amateurs 



All the following varieties will be found 

 suitable for cultivation in pots. 



APPLES. Dessert : Beauty of Bath, Lady 

 Sudeley. James Grieve, Ellison's Orange, 

 Cox's Pomona, Gascoyne's Scarlet, Ribston 

 Pippin, Cox's Orange Pippin, Rival, King 

 of Tomkin's County, Stunner Pippin. Cook- 

 ing : White Transparent, Peasgood's None- 

 such, Blenheim Orange, Newton Wonder, 

 Beauty of Kent, Annie Elizabeth, The 

 Queen. 



CHERRIES. Guigne d'Annonay, Early 

 Rivers, Governor Wood, Frogmore Early 

 Bigarreau, Black Tartarian, Bigarreau 

 Napoleon, Elton, Emperor Francis, Flor- 



FIGS. St. John's, Brown Turkey, White 

 Marseilles, White Ischia. 



NECTARINES. Cardinal, Early Rivers, 

 Lord Napier, Dryden, Rivers' Orange, Pine 

 Apple, Spencer, Victoria. 



PEACHES. Duchess of Cornwall, Amsden 

 June, Rivers' Early York, Crimson Galande, 

 Goshawk, Late Devonian, Sea Eagle. 



PEARS. Williams' Bon Chretien, Direc- 

 teur Hardy, Doyenne du Cornice, Durondeau, 

 Emile d'Heyst, Fondante d'Automne, Le 

 Lectier, Louise Bonne de Jersey, Marguerite 

 Marillat, Marie Louise. 



PLUMS. Early Transparent Gage, Reine 

 Claude de, Bavay, Green Gage, Bryanston 

 Gage, Jefferson, Kirke's. 



How to Make a Small Holding Pay 



HOW to make a small holding pro- 

 fitable is a subject which has 

 exercised many minds in this 

 country. Numerous mistakes have been 

 made in this connection, and frequently it 

 is to be feared serious disappointment, as 

 well as loss, has befallen optimistic indivi- 

 duals who have set out to make a fortune 

 from a holding of a few acres. Many people 

 have failed to sscure a footing upon the 

 land through lack of sufficient capital. A 

 man should have at least 20 for every acre 

 he takes up. Numbers of men have failed 

 through lack of energy and determination ; 

 for, besides industry of the most energetic 

 nature, there is the need for that persever- 

 ance which enables a man to hold on through 

 bad times to better and more prosperous days. 

 The personal factor is of great importance 

 in the successful starting and subsequent 

 management of a small holding of land. 



What is a Small Holding ? My ideal 

 small holding would consist of something 

 more than four or five acres of land devoted 

 to market gardening, or market gardening 

 and fruit growing combined. I should prefer 

 to see people settled upon about twenty 

 acres ; this would allow of a small grass 

 orchard, with a fair-sized paddock and some 

 land reserved for corn and root-growing, for 

 a couple of cows and for as many pigs as 



could be accommodated. Much food and all 

 bedding can then be grown for the stock, 

 which can be maintained at small expense 

 if the holding be properly managed. An 

 acre or two of grass orchard near home is a 

 valuable asset apart from the fruit grown ; 

 it makes a sheltered spot for the turning out 

 of calves or pigs. Upon a twenty-acre hold- 

 ing one horse at least must be kept, and 

 unless there are near neighbours willing and 

 able to loan a horse now and then it will be 

 wise to keep a fairly strong pair. 



If the land is rented the landlord will 

 always have much to say in regard to the 

 provision of buildings for stock. The capi- 

 tal involved is greatly increased by much 

 building, and tenants usually have to suffer 

 in the shape of higher rentals. Prospective 

 holders must also remember that keeping 

 stock means more work, more anxiety, and 

 more initial outlay. From early morning 

 until late at night very frequently atten- 

 tion must be given if success is to be assiired. 

 Unless people are prepared for this constant 

 attention and watchfulness, for much sus- 

 tained effort, they will be well advised to de- 

 vote themselves to only a small area of land. 



Many men do succeed in this way. They 

 run a dairy of cows and a milk round. They 

 farm corn land and pasture for their cows, 

 and they cultivate small holdings of market 



