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We do not for a moment wish to let intending planters labour 

 under any delusion as regards the Export trade in fresh fruits, 

 and here state plainly our opinion. Unless a grower is conveniently 

 situated near the Railway and within reasonable distance of a 

 -Colonial Port, he has no chance of competing on fair and even 

 terms, and had best make up his mind to look to another direction 

 for his outlet, i.e., to Colonial consumption. It will be difficult 

 to keep pace with it in apples particularly for many years, there- 

 fore late keeping apples will undoubtedly pay. In districts where 

 peaches do well, and some of the,se districts are many miles from 

 a railway drying varieties of the Yellow -fleshed peaches only 

 should be planted melting white-fleshed peaches would prove 

 unprofitable in such a locality. Apricots of all the varieties 

 listed in Colonial Nurserymen's catalogues will make a decent 

 dried product. In plums the drying varieties, /.?., prunes of 

 the several sorts, should be planted in districts miles away from 

 direct railway communicatior, and in pears varieties that dry 

 well, as Bon Chretien, Beurre Hardy, Louis Bonne, &c., &c., 

 and if a district so situated is particularly .suited to pears, late 

 varieties such as Winter Xelis, Easter Beurre, Glout Morceau, &c., 

 should bring satisfactory returns, as they are very firm, bear 

 transport well, and are long keepers. 



