And when chance brought me, in 1896, in company with a local gardener, to a tiny, retired “vinery” of a veteran grower, I could see there, and admire, what a lover of gardening can obtain from so small a space as the two-thirds of an acre.
Kropotkin recounts a visit to a small vineyard, admiring the achievements of a dedicated gardener in limited space.
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