34 HINTS ON PROFITABLE FRUIT GROWING. 



with the home growers, such as strawberries, raspberries, 

 gooseberries, and currants. The foreigner manifestly 

 cannot supply those fruits to advantage, as they cannot 

 be kept twenty-four hours before they begin to perish ; 

 whilst most of the large farmers at home who have 

 capital and large holdings, cannot generally so alter 

 their systems of culture as to take up with fruit growing 

 in combination with corn and stock feeding, so that the 

 small cultivators should have, virtually, a monopoly of the 

 business. They " hold the field " again for the future. 



