12 MAY 1933, Page 13

One feature of the industry that steadily grows is the

glass- house. One of the newer houses stands at the top of a gentle slope that announces a great experiment in land reclamation by-the Romans. So are our days bound each to each." Such glass-houses increase in many districts for more and more Sorts of cultivation : in Cornwall, in the Lea Valley, in South Lincolnshire and elsewhere. Already the Lea valley may be called a second "Valley of Glass" comparable with its namesake in Guernsey, which helped to inspire Prince Kropotkin to his historic pamphlet on the possibilities of intensive cultivation. Indeed his figures of the wealth to be reaped from an acre have been considerably enhanced.