What chiefly attracts the gardener to the great cities is stable manure; and this is not wanted so much for increasing the richness of the soil--one-tenth part of the manure used by the French gardeners would do for that purpose--but for keeping the soil at a certain temperature.
Kropotkin explains the real reason why gardeners are drawn to urban areas, focusing on the need for stable manure.
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