Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin: “In fact, I worked out here the foundation of nearly all that I have written later on.”

Every farmer is more or less of a gardener, and he gives free scope to his inventive powers for devising some cheap type of greenhouses.

Italy aspires to go on without foreign produce.

To every house a garden is attached, and none of the misery of big cities is to be seen.

We have already, in the facts mentioned in this chapter, an experimental basis for quite a number of means of improving our present methods of culture and of largely increasing the crops.