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class of " occasionals" who appeared all hours 

 and seasons, with all kinds of vessels and ve 

 hides, at the general salesroom, a wide-spread- 

 ing apple-tree in the centre of the garden. 

 There was no calculating on this class. Some 

 days they would come in shoals, and on others 

 would not come at all. It seemed that when a 

 cool, crisp head of lettuce presented itself to 

 their fancy, or the thought of relieving the 

 monotony of the day by the sharp biting radish, 

 or aromatic, emotional onion, occurred to them, 

 they immediately seized upon basket and 

 started, and that thus their visits had all the 

 irregularity ever known to belong to human im- 

 pulses. But Thomas, the head salesman, or 

 Charlie, the book-keeper, was either under the 

 apple-tree, or not far off, and their sudden long- 

 ings were satisfied 



With my limited area of land, Blackcaps and 

 raspberries are the only fruits with which I 



