Garden or Allotment ?
On the subject of barren ground, there are in my neighbourhood two sorts of property left to weeds and thorns and briars. One is a field bought for allotments ; the other some part of an area used (most outrageously) as a dumping-ground for Loridon rubbish. Allotments in general add greatly to the food supply, but these are useless as a rule if selected at any distance from dwelling houses and not within easy reach of a water supply. The ideal is not the allotment but the larger garden; and this most precious feature. has been too much disregarded in nearly all recent cottage building. The garden not only supplies the cottage dweller with food ; it supplies him with a constant interest that in many country folk more than rivals the films or darts or whatever foolish amusement you please. The cottage garden is almost always "an acre rich indeed." The ideal size is certainly as big again as most of the patches allotted to the newer houses.
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