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housewife does not more generally follow the example 

 of her Canadian sister in bottling fruit herself in the 

 time of plenty for use in her household during the 

 winter season. But perhaps the average English 

 housewife would be the more disposed so to do if the 

 Evesham growers were to prepare and issue broadcast 

 some practical leaflets giving clear and explicit direc- 

 tions as to the best way in which fruit could be bottled 

 for domestic use. 



Then the growers at Evesham have been paying 

 considerable attention of late years to the production of 

 fruit and vegetables under glass. They have felt that 

 the introduction of glass-houses on the Guernsey prin- 

 ciple would be a great help to the general industry at 

 Evesham. It would allow of a more active competition 

 with other producing centres in respect to early varieties, 

 and it would also enable the Evesham market-gardeners 

 to supply their customers with all that they required, 

 instead of leaving them to obtain, say, tomatoes or 

 cucumbers from some other source at a comparatively 

 high rate for an odd lot. I have said already that a 

 single consignment of vegetables and fruits from 

 Evesham to one dealer has been known to consist of 

 twenty-three different varieties, and the reader will 

 understand that the dealer in question might well 

 prefer to obtain a twenty- fourth variety from the same 

 grower, to be delivered in the same consignment, 

 instead of looking for it elsewhere. Evesham has 

 thus resolved to become a rival of Guernsey, and 

 though the island may lay claim to a still more genial 

 climate, the inland town has the advantage of cheaper 

 coal. In view of this latter fact, combined with their 

 greater nearness to the consuming centres, the Evesham 

 growers are entering into the competition full of confi- 

 dence, so that, as one of them remarked to me, * We 



