URBAN GARDENERS.
A plan that has given health and happiness and, indeed, some wealth (since production is the only true wealth) to many hard-working people has just come to an official end ;
but will continue unofficially if the hopes of patriotic gardeners are fulfilled. For two seasons, with the aid of a Government grant and much practical help from Friends the unemployed of Sheffield have had the chance of cultivating allotments. We discovered during the War how large an amount of the best food can be produced by townsmen in their leisure moments. This Sheffield scheme has been perhaps the very best example we have had of the beneficent effect of the allotment on the unemployed ; and they have been twice blessed or three or four times blessed ; for they have pro- duced good food (which advantages the nation) and have given themselves both health and pleasure. Indeed, men have been cured of consumption by their gardening.
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