34 Hints on Vegetable and Fruit Farming. 



The best sorts for standards are the Early Purple Gean, 

 Early Rivers, Adam's Crown Heart, Early Frog^more, Knight's 

 Early Black, Kentish Bigarreau or Amber Heart, Elton Heart, 

 Waterloo, IMack Heart, May Duke, Black Eagle, Flemish, Turkey 

 Head or Turk, Florence, Kentish Cluster or Crown, Morello. 

 These ripen in the order in which they are given above. Those 

 that are best for pyramids are the Early Purple Gean, Belle 

 d'Orleans, May Duke, Royal Duke, Flemish, Kentish Red, and 

 Morello. The three last are hardy, very prolific, and their fruit 

 always is in great demand. All cherries are most saleable. 

 The importation of cherries from France, Holland, and Algiers 

 has ceased when English cherries are ready for market. They 

 have sold remarkably well this year, having made from 145. to 

 3()5. per sieve of 48 lbs. A landowner in East Kent, who has 

 planted many acres of land with cherry-trees, cleared 420Z. in 

 the last season by the fruit from 7 acres. English cherries are 

 superior in flavour to those grown on the Continent, as indeed 

 most of the English fruit is, and they are much appreciated by 

 gourmets. As has been said before, they ripen when Continental 

 cherries are over, and at a time when there is not an abundant 

 supply of fruit in Paris, Brussels, and other cities. The same 

 applies to plums and to soft fruits. Seeing that there is no 

 duty upon fruit imported into France, and only 5 per cent, ad 

 valorem upon fruit imported to Holland, and 10 per cent, in the 

 case of Belgium, surely a trade might be established with those 

 countries. The Kentish Railway Companies have stated that 

 they are willing to give facilities of transport and a quick 

 service, and it only remains for enterprising growers to open 

 communications with dealers in the chief cities of those 

 countries. 



This concludes the list of fruits that may be grown upon a 

 large scale, the cultivation of which does not entail a great 

 amount of skill or knowledge. There are other fruits whose 

 cultivation would be taken up by enterprising fruit-farmers after 

 a time, such as peaches, nectarines, apricots, figs, and grapes, 

 out of doors, and under glass with or without heat. A great deal 

 of money is made from these by the few who grow them, who 

 make a business of producing luxuries for the wealthy. Judg- 

 ment is necessary in the selection of suitable spots and of suitable 

 sorts of fruits for planting, and special care must be taken that 

 the sorts are true to their names. Planting must be thoroughly 

 well done in every detail, if the best results are desired. This 

 kind of ship is most easily *' spoiled for want of a halfpennyworth 

 of tar." Cultivation also must be carried out in a liberal manner, 

 and far more attention paid to packing and setting fine fruit off 

 in the best light than is now bestowed by ordinary fruit-growers. 



