58 THE PRACTICAL SIDE OF 



A small holder who proposes to grow 

 roses should first learn his trade, unless 

 he has already gained experience. As 

 in the case of other plants, there are 

 many things to learn, especially in rela- 

 tion to budding, planting, manuring, 

 pruning, disbudding, marketing, and pot- 

 ting where roses are grown for sale in 

 pots. 



Although the cultivation of the tomato, 

 the cucumber, and the chrysanthemum is 

 quite simple to the expert, it is by no 

 means so easy as it looks, and while 

 our suggestion in relation to these plants 

 are intended rather for those who have 

 had some experience in garden work than 

 for others, we may at least remark that 

 their cultivation is worth the careful study 

 of those who propose to occupy a Small 

 Holding with a little glass, especially in 

 those districts where tomatoes can be 

 grown successfully in the open air, as 

 in Cornwall, where in an instance well 

 known to the writer a quarter of an acre 

 realised over £50 a year in three successive 

 years, and v/as followed by a crop of 

 broccoli, which also paid a good profit to 

 the grower. The chief points in the 



