232 Commercial Gardening 



After ten years' cultivation the annual receipts may be estimated as 

 follows: 



TABLE III. ESTIMATE OF THE APPROXIMATE ANNUAL EECEIPTS FROM 

 A MIXED MARKET GARDEN OF 10 ACRES, ESTABLISHED 10 YEARS 



8. d. 



2 ac. half-standard Apple trees, 160 to acre = 



320 trees at 15s. each , ... 240 



2 ac. bush Apple trees, 300 to the acre = 600 



trees at 8s. each 240 



3 ac. bush Plums and Pyramid Pears, 300 to acre 



= 900 trees at 8s. each 360 



3000 Gooseberry bushes, between 2 ac. half-stan- 

 dard Apple trees, at Is. each ... ... ... 150 



1500 Currant bushes, between 2 ac. bush Apple 



trees, at 2s. each 150 



3000 Raspberry stools, between 3 ac. of Plums and 



Pears, at Is. each ... ... ... ... 150 



4 houses Cucumbers, 2000 doz. fruits at Is. Qd. 150 

 4 houses Tomatoes, 2000 plants with 10,000 Ib. 



fruit 125 



Bedding stuff, Chrysanthemums, bulbs, hardy 



flowers, Mushrooms, &c. ... ... ... 250 



2 ac. vegetables at 10s. per rod 160 



Total receipts 1975 



Assuming that the expenses each year are 1332, as stated in Table II, 

 it will be seen that as time goes on the net profits rise up to 643 

 per annum. It must of course be understood that these figures are only 

 estimates, and are subject to fluctuation one way or the other. The fluc- 

 tuations, however, are more likely to be on the receipt side than on the 

 expense side. The latter one is always fairly certain about, and such 

 items as labour, manure, horse keep, rates and taxes, &c., are definite in 

 character. If the cultivator could only be as sure of the receipts from 

 the items given on the revenue side he would have no objection to spend- 

 ing the money to earn it. Unfortunately, however, he has no control 

 over the spring frosts, which may reduce his anticipated return of 1290 

 from 1820 fruit trees and 7500 Gooseberry, Currant, and Raspberry 

 bushes to the odd 290, thus ensuring a dead loss of 1000 on these 

 crops alone in some seasons. It is, however, only by making these 

 estimates of receipts and expenses as accurately as possible on paper that 

 the intelligent cultivator is enabled to see the possibilities for gain or 

 loss in his particular business. The writer is well aware that some 

 growers realize far better prices than are given in the tables above; 

 but, on the other hand, there are also many who never realize them, 

 chiefly because they are unable or afraid to spend a sufficient amount 

 in cultivation. 



