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fathers originally reclaimed from the 

 woods forty or fifty years before. 



In the Evesham and Pershore district 

 of Worcestershire a system of tenant- 

 right has grown up as regards fruit plan- 

 tations and market-garden crops, which 

 has become practically " the custom of 

 the country," which works out satis- 

 factorily, there being a good demand for 

 ready-planted fruit land. The landlord 

 lets the land and the incoming tenant 

 pays the outgoing tenant for the " tenant- 

 right " ; but if there were no incoming 



tenant, the landlord would pay the out- 

 going tenant. This system gave the model 

 for the original Market Gardeners' Com- 

 pensation Act which has been made retro- 

 spective by the last Agricultural Holdings 

 Act. 



The Agriculture Act, 1920, legalises the 

 " Evesham Custom " by which a quitting 

 tenant is entitled to compensation for 

 market garden improvements, but only 

 if he can find another tenant willing to 

 take his place and to undertake the 

 liability for compensation. 



