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"pot" of fruit present a fair face, though 

 at the bottom we know it to bear quite 

 another complexion. 



There are those at Evesham, as of course 

 there are everywhere else, who complain of 

 foreign competition, but it seemed to me that 

 it would be well for them to put their own 

 house into order before waiting; for the 

 assumed millennium born of a single fiscal 

 measure. This is indeed what the peasants 

 did in France and Germany when they began 

 to feel the pressure of the competition of the 

 cultivated prairies of the new worlds. 



It is not often that one conies across a 

 grower who is an ardent Free Trader, yet at 

 Evesham I had an interesting talk with one 

 who presented the importation of foreign fruit 

 in a new light to me. He said, "Our 

 customers are greengrocers, and how long do 

 you suppose a greengrocer would be able to 

 keep his shutters down if it were not for the 

 trade in foreign fruit, such as bananas, lemons, 

 oranges, nuts ? We English growers can 

 only keep our shop open for about six months. 

 By being able to keep their trade flourishing 

 for the whole year, greengrocers have educated 

 the public to the advantages of a fruit diet, 



