The very best of the holdings I saw is not,
it must be con- fessed, at all characteristic, but is of peculiar interest. It consists only of five acres and is farmed by a carpenter. He grows an astonishing variety of produce in great perfection : many bulbs, a patch ofriris, several pole of annua1gypsophila, potatoes, a good quarter-acre of strawberries., ,p.s" much of peas, with a small amount of grain and some tree fruit. In addition to the outbuildings provided, he has built by his own hands and at his own expense pigsties and henhouses. The farm was not weedless, but except for one patch of bulbs (the most difficult of all crops to handle) it was singularly clean, and every crop, except perhaps the apple-trees which do not suit the county, looked good enough to ensure a good return. How the work was done by a man largely busy with an ancillary occupation it is hard to imagine, but no one performs greater miracles than the man who loves the land
and understands it.
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