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are not communal possessions, but each holding must be self-contained. 
In other ways a small-holding is more expensive to work than a large 
one, and too often the small-holder is hampered at the outset by 
shortage of money or burdened by mortgages and the like. 
Probably no one scheme would meet all cases, nor would rural 
credit banks solve the whole problem. Indeed, in all probability, 
until a community arises accustomed to conditions of life on small- 
holdings, able and willing to shake themselves free from fads and the 
anti-this-that-and-the-other-isms which seem to mark so many small- 
holding communities, and willing, too, to work as a community with 
a common aim and individual freedom to act in everything, except 
to the detriment of his neighbours, the small-holder will have a constant 
struggle, and it will take at least a generation to see this. One thing 
seems clear, that the future of the small-holding lies, not in making 
the holding a miniature farm, but in cultivating it with a special aim 
as a market or fruit garden, or in some other particular direction. 
" The Herbaceous Garden." By Mrs. Philip Martineau. Ed. III. 
8vo. xx + 298 pp. (Williams & Norgate, London, 1917.) 75. 6d. 
net. 
We are glad to see this very useful book has gone to a third im- 
pression so quickly. It has not been added to since the publication 
of the edition which we reviewed in 1914, but some necessary revisions 
have been made. 
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