HINTS AND ENCOURAGEMENTS 



FOR 



PROFITABLE FRUIT GROWING. 



CHAPTER L 



CAN ENGLAND GROW ITS OWN FRUIT? 



IIow is this most vital question to be solved? a 

 question that must be solved before agricultural distress 

 can be permanently remedied, and one that gradually 

 must be solved before our great labour difficulties can be 

 effectually grappled with. How can small holdings be 

 made permanently to pay for cultivation as fruit planta- 

 tions, so that the rural labourer can get a prospect of a 

 future of independence by exercising thrift, skill, and 

 enterprise? Then a few really energetic and earnest 

 men in each county might gradually revolutionize the 

 agricultural "corn and stock" system now in vogue, 

 throughout the entire country, if successful at scientific 

 fruit farming, as their example would soon induce others 

 to follow on. 



