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" tenants. The tenants called a meeting, 

 " and I valued for them. The amount due 

 ' ' to tenants was about £2,000, the new 

 " landlord was invited to meet the tenants, 

 " and in a good spirit, said he would sell 

 " to each tenant his holding at a nominal 

 " profit on the purchase, or he would let 

 " each tenant go on as before, with a small 

 " increase of rent. The latter alternative 

 " was accepted by all. The landlord gave 

 " a written agreement that if anj' tenant 

 " wanted to leave they were to give him 

 " the first offer of the tenancy, and he 

 ' ' would be willing to pay the same as any 

 " other incoming tenant. This, of course, 

 '' gave general satisfaction and the new 

 " landlord got a good interest for his pur- 

 " chase. I can hardly see what the land- 

 " lord wants more than this, for he is not 

 " entitled to what his tenants have 

 " laboured for years for. If the land is 

 " required for buildings or any other im- 

 " portant matter, it can be sold at a price 

 " that the landlord can afford to pay his 

 ' ' tenant, especially now that the scale of 

 " charges is well known." 



Waewickshike. — With regard to any 

 definite arrangement between landlord 

 and tenant in this county, there is none ; 

 they vary in different parts. 



In one case the landlord finds trees and 

 plants the same, the tenant pays 5 per 

 cent, on the outlay, and no compensation 

 at the termination of his tenancy. In 

 another, the landlord finds trees and 

 materials necessary for fencing or pro- 

 tection, the tenant plants and pays all 

 labour in connection with fencing, etc., 

 and undertakes to keep up the number of 

 trees. In this case no compensation is 

 allowed at the end of the tenancy. In 

 another case a tenant who farms a large 

 area of land wanted to plant fruit trees, 

 which he has done on part of his holding, 

 but the landlord would not agree to allow 

 any compensation at the termination of 

 tenancy, although the tenant found all 

 trees and labour. The landlord would not 

 recognise any part of the farm as market 

 garden land. 



In a case where the trees were planted 

 before the Act came into force, a stiff claim 

 for compensation has been made and sus- 

 tained.* 



'Mr. Walker Bernard , Stratford-on-Avon. 



Kent. — An agent near Tonbridge says 

 he had to arrange the planting of several 

 large orchards, and in those cases the land- 

 lord provided the fruit trees delivered on 

 the site and also paid the wages of the 

 man who superintended the planting, the 

 farmers providing three men to do the 

 labour of planting, etc. In the above 

 cases no compensation would be claimed 

 at quitting.! 



Scotland. 



Mr. John Speir, Newton Farm, Newton, 

 near Glasgow, wrote: — "The passing of 

 " the Market Gardeners' Act has been 

 " against the interests of fruit growers 

 " both on farms and market gardens. 

 " Landlords in letting land now do so only 

 " as farm land, and for the purchase of 

 " growing farm crops, even although it 

 " should already be a market garden. This 

 " prevents any fruit of other permanent 

 " market garden crops being planted (or 

 ' ' at least claimed for at the expiry of the 

 " lease), other than the half acre allowed 

 " by the Agricultural Holdings Act. No 

 " landlords provide trees or come under 

 " any obligations to take over any planted 

 " land." 



Ireland. 



In Ireland no arrangement is entered 

 into between landlord and tenant as re- 

 gards ownership of fruit plantations. To 

 put it broadly, owing to the dual owner- 

 ship brought about by the Land Acts, the 

 landlord has really got nothing but a life 

 interest in the land. As long as the land- 

 lord receives his rent he is powerless and 

 the tenant can erect what buildings he 

 likes, make what plantations he likes and 

 when he likes sell his ownership in the 

 farm, the landlord exercising a nominal 

 approval of the new tenant. In nearly 

 every case all buildings, fruit plantations 

 and the like, belong to the tenant, and 

 certain families have held their farms from 

 generation to generation. This causes 

 one of the difficulties under which Ireland 

 is now labouring, namely, to determine 

 what belongs to the landlord, what to the 

 tenant. It is, however, taken as a rule, 

 that when land is surrendered to the land- 

 lord the tenant is entitled to compensa- 



+ Mr. Antony R. Cragg, Estate Office, Grattoii 

 Park, Surrey. 



