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JOURNAL  OF  HORTICULTURE  AND  COTTAGE  GARDENER . 
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Tl\e  Land  and  Its  Culture. 
census  returns  for  various  towns 
J  and  villages  which  have  been  re¬ 
turned  show,  in  an  unmistakeabie 
manner,  how  surely  the  popu¬ 
lation  iB  drifting  from  the  green 
fields  and  sunshine  of  country  life  to 
toils  and  phantom  pleasures  of  tht 
cities.  So  alarming  has  the  present  state 
of  affairs  in  this  respect  become,  that  it 
is  engaging  the  serious  attention  of  statesmen, 
ph  lanthropists,  and  political  economists.  This 
}  alarm  is  felt  for  two  distinct  reasons;  one  is,  that 
j  in  consequence  of  the  depopulation  of  our  villages, 
vast  areas  of  land  are  gradually  going  out  of  cul¬ 
tivation,  and  this  is  making  us  more  dependant 
each  year  upon  foreign  countries  for  our  food 
supplies.  The  other  drawback,  which  is,  perhaps, 
the  more  serious  of  the  two,  being  that  the 
1  stamina  of  the  nation  is  gradually  undermined 
in  consequence  of  the  artificial  conditions  of  city 
j  life  :  and  when  the  reserve  of  physical  vitality, 
which  has  hitherto  been  drawn  from  the  country  , 
is  exhausted,  what  then  will  be  the  result  ? 
Shall  we  gradually  become  a  nation  of  weaklings  ? 
or  will  some  method  be  found  of  solving  the 
problem,  or  a  solution  be  brought  about  by  natural 
laws  ? 
In  my  opinion,  the  two  great  difficulties 
outlined  above  are  indissolubly  connected  with 
each  other,  and  when  that  great  problem — how  to 
make  the  cultivation  of  the  soil  generally  pro- 
dtable — is  solved,  then  will  the  population  troop 
back  “through  the  gates  of  the  cities”  to  the 
pleasures  and  sunshine  of  country  life.  A  love  of 
country  life  seems  to  be  an  instinct  implanted  in 
almost  every  human  breast,  and  it  is  only  the 
poverty  and  monotony  of  ruial  districts  which 
has,  in  the  past,  driven  so  many  to  the  towns.  For 
a  time  the  countryman  is  delighted  with  town 
life  ;  the  higher  wages,  fewer  hours  of  labour,  and 
greater  facilities  for  pleasure;  but  when  middle 
READERS  are  requested  to  send  Notices  of  Gardening 
Appointments  or  Notes  of  Horticultural  Interest, 
Intimations  of  Meetings,  Queries,  and  all  Articles  for 
Publication,  officially  to  “  THE  EDITOR,’’  at 
12,  Mitre  Court  Chambers,  Fleet  Street, 
London,  E.C.,  and  to  no  other  person  and  to  no  other 
address. 
No.  1099.— Vol.  XLII.,  Third  Series. 
