THE GARDEN THAT

PAID THE RENT

BY

TOM JERROLD

AUTHOR OF

OUR KITCHEN GARDEN," "HOUSEHOLD HORTICULTURE," ETC.

FOR the idea and title of "The Garden that Paid the Rent" I am indebted to my brother, Mr. Blanchard Jerrold, as also for part of the letterpress-the original work having been written in conjunction with him in 1860.

More extended experience has been brought to bear upon the revised edition, which I venture to hope will be found not less interesting and more practical than its predecessor.

June, 1882.

TOM JERROLD.

THE GARDEN THAT PAID

THE RENT.

CHAPTER I.

DIRECTLY the inhabitant of a large town accumulates a little money, or prospers in business, he endeavours to spend his mornings and evenings out of town, and to sleep in fresher air than that of the street or lane in which his daily labour lies. He finds a new suburban villa, with a garden; or, better still, he discovers some old, solid house, with a walled fruit-garden and a little orchard. Well-to-do commercial London, for instance, lives out of town. Hampstead, Highgate, St. John's Wood, Brixton, Putney, Clapham, Shepherd's Bush, are