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married man with a family that he commenced his 

 career as a fruit grower. 



There are at least two or three dozen thriving florists 

 and fruit growers around Bexley Heath, in Kent, some 

 who have been for many years equally successful at 

 their work. What they and many others around 

 London have been able to do, can be done around 

 nearly all our larger towns, or wherever there is a 

 railway station handy, and where land suitable for 

 fruit culture is available within an hour's journey of a 

 good market. 



The marvellous growth of the foreign fruit trade the 

 past ten years, also shows that practically there is no 

 limit to the possible demand for good and tempting 

 quality of home-grown fruit, although nearly all the 

 expansion of our British consumption hitherto has been 

 for the benefit of the foreign producer. It must surely 

 be a convincing proof that such crops are extremely 

 profitable, when we find that small holdings around 

 Paris for fruit and choice vegetables, with a good supply 

 of water, glass, and walls, will realize a rental at 

 the rate of from 50 to 60, and upwards, per annum 

 per acre, in a very similar climate to ours, as described 

 in the extract appended to these articles. 



