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be wasted, either by buying it outright, or evaporating it for others at a reasonable 

 charge. 



In the important matter of packing fruit, also in the several methods of preservation 

 and distribution referred to, cultivators in Great Britain, as a body, have been too long 

 content to let their rivals in other lands "hold the field" ; but there are exceptions, 

 and as those persons who adopted the best methods in all things that bear on the pro- 

 duction and presentation of fruit, have, as they ought, achieved the greatest success, so 

 it is hoped that others will follow in their steps and persevere, till the stigma of 

 inferiority, in the great industry in question, is removed from our land. To aid in the 

 realisation of this object has been the earnest desire of all who have shared in the pro- 

 duction of THE FKUIT GROWER'S GUIUK 



