garden in the 1901 tests at Bournville, after making allowance for all outgoings, proved to be 1_s._ 11_d._ each per week. Mr. Cadbury also thought that the increased consumption of fresh vegetable food, instead of animal food, was further desirable. It was touching, he thought, to see the interest and pleasure taken by town families when on coming into the country they saw seeds germinate and vegetables grown for the first time. Nor was the advantage of leaving the town for the country restricted to the workmen. Mr. Cadbury showed that the greater facilities there for obtaining land were also of advantage to the manufacturer whose business was increasing. The Bournville idea was at first regarded as an impracticable one, even apart from the economic side of the question, but the realisation of the scheme has proved otherwise. The average garden space allotted to the Bournville cottages is 600 square yards, this being as much as most men can conveniently cultivate, and, almost without exception, the Bournville tenants are the most enthusiastic gardeners—a statement no one surely will traverse who has paid a visit to the village in the summer. [Illustration: PLATE III. SHOPS, BOURNVILLE.] [Illustration: PLATE IV. LINDEN ROAD, BOURNVILLE.] [Illustration: PLATE V. THE OLD FARM INN, BOURNVILLE.] While it was the first aim of the founder to provide dwellings for the factory worker which should have adequate accommodation and large gardens, it was not intended that at Bournville provision should be made alone for the poorer working class. It might be pointed out that one of the most prominent ideals in the scheme of the Garden Suburb Trust, already referred to, is “that all classes may live in kindly neighbourliness,” and the amalgamation of the factory-worker and the brain-worker in the same district is catered for as being expressly desirable. At Bournville there has always been a demand for houses both on the part of the skilled artisan and others, and this demand has been provided for from the first. Rents in the village range from _4s._ _6d._ a week, rates not included, to _12s._ a week; and there are also a few houses of a still larger class at higher rentals. Nor are the houses let to Messrs. Cadbury’s own workpeople exclusively, as the following figures will show—figures based on a private census taken during 1901, and here quoted from a booklet issued by the Village Trust:— PROPORTION OF HOUSEHOLDERS WORKING IN— Bournville 41·2 per cent. Villages within a mile of Bournville 18·6 „ Birmingham 40·2 „ OCCUPATIONS OF HOUSEHOLDERS— Employed at indoor work in factories 50·7 per cent. Clerks and travellers 13·3 „ Mechanics, carpenters, bricklayers, and various occupations not admitting of exact classification 36·0 „