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FRANCE 



Hague and Granville the cultivation of parsley 

 has been carried on to such an extent that one 

 grower alone exported to England during the 

 season in 1901 no fewer than 100 packets of 

 parsley a day, each packet representing 20 lbs. 

 By way of final illustration of the practical 

 results that have followed the general change of 

 policy referred to above, I cannot do better than 

 give the following figures relating to some of 

 the principal items of export from St. Malo to 

 Great Britain : — 



To this table I will only add that while, in 

 regard to the actual sale of such produce, co- 

 operative effort may play a less conspicuous 

 role in France than in other countries in the 

 North of Europe, and while, also, the grouping 

 of lots there may still be done mainly through 

 the individual trader, the influence of agricultural 

 associations has, nevertheless, been distinctly felt 

 by the cultivators in the cheapening of fertilizers, 



