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London, and fruit must go on largely increasing in 

 consumption, not as a mere luxury, but as a necessity 

 to secure the best health, however bad the times may 

 be. 



There are still one hundred and twenty millions spent 

 annually for strong drink, and as fresh fruit contains 

 nearly seven-eighths water on the average, it will be 

 found that fruit may be made largely to supersede all 

 sorts of drink. At any rate this large national drink * 

 bill can be " tapped " by the British fruit growers to 

 the extent of some millions per annum, to the marked 

 advantage of the whole community. 



People, also, who want to keep their liver right, will 

 try fruit breakfasts ; and fruit growers thus can probably 

 secure some of the many millions spent on tea and 

 coffee. The use of these hot drinks is the chief " blocker," 

 in fact, to the universal adoption of a fruit diet. As 

 fruit becomes used as a food, buyers will order by the 

 bushel, and there will be outlets increasing faster than 

 any probable enlargement in the home supplies. 



