JAM 



made £600 a year from this small plot and paid £250 for 

 labour on it.^ 



Mr. Gladstone also said that the future of British farmers 

 depended upon jam. Yet it must be remembered that 

 the trees take a long time to come into bearing, and the 

 crop is most uncertain. 



^ Journal Royal Horticultural Society ^ vol. 27, part iv. 



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