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grow successfully, and whether others which 

 have not been named respond better to 

 the conditions which the locality provides. 

 As in the cultivation of other plants, it is 

 essential that a grower should know his 

 business, or at least as much as enables 

 him to plant, to prune, and to spray 

 successfully. The finest trees, the best 

 varieties, with ample capital, will fail if 

 these essential features of the work are 

 misunderstood. 



Let us next suppose that an occupier 

 of a Small Holding of less than five acres 

 in extent has decided upon a plan, and 

 that he proposes to cultivate one acre as 

 a French garden. It may be well to 

 mention that a holding cropped somewhat 

 on the lines which w^e have indicated, with 

 the addition of this acre, would require 

 as much capital as one of much larger 

 size when managed as a farm. In addi- 

 tion to the cost of the glass-house, the 

 fruit-trees, and such plants as rhubarb, 

 asparagus, and potatoes, we have to con- 

 sider the cost of the equipment of the 

 French garden. Here the object is to 

 produce three or even four or five crops 

 in succession within the year, and by the 



