. Garden cities in theory and practice; being an amplification of a paper on the potentialities of applied science in a garden city, read before Section F of the British Association . ;f 6ft a o. THE BRITON AND HIS GARDEN 413 by their daughters ; the dainty needlework of theart school with the utilitarian seamstressy of themothers meeting, and such-like—presents to us alengthy and pleasing vista, along the paths of whichthe true friends of the movement are destined pro-minently to walk. To pursue it would carry usbeyond our domain, which for the present must beconfined to lending assista


. Garden cities in theory and practice; being an amplification of a paper on the potentialities of applied science in a garden city, read before Section F of the British Association . ;f 6ft a o. THE BRITON AND HIS GARDEN 413 by their daughters ; the dainty needlework of theart school with the utilitarian seamstressy of themothers meeting, and such-like—presents to us alengthy and pleasing vista, along the paths of whichthe true friends of the movement are destined pro-minently to walk. To pursue it would carry usbeyond our domain, which for the present must beconfined to lending assistance in the bringing intobeing of a City to contain a well-organized com-munity, amongst whom all these pleasant thingsmay take place. To proceed, one must return to the land, for inthat is contained an inexhaustible supply of pleasure,to be agreeably extracted from it by the mere exer-cise of pleasurable effort, which we know of itselfreturns in bountiful abundance; for it rewards thesower, not only by that which he shall reap, butalso with that which cannot be bought, yet ofinestimable worth—health. Fortunately, it has been already proved that ingardening the average Briton does find inexh


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