FRUIT AND VEGETABLE PRESERVING 105 



prices fall to a point at which it does not pay to pick and 

 handle. Transport difficulties also make it precarious, in 

 the case of soft fruits, to attempt a sale outside the imme- 

 diate place of production. Increased cultivation is thus 

 discouraged. 



In growing fruits or vegetables for canning or bottling 

 a man is independent of market fluctuations, whereas at 

 present both producers and consumers are in the hands 

 of the local shopkeepers, who have the former entirely 

 at their mercy. 



The Egyptian fruit and vegetable trade is very well 

 worth cultivating, but until better measures can be 

 enforced in the matter of transport by sea as well as land, 

 shippers run the risk of heavy losses, which, no doubt, 

 recoil upon the unlucky producers. 



Specimens of most of the products referred to in these 

 notes may be seen in the Cyprus Court in the Public 

 Exhibition Galleries of the Imperial Institute. 



Printed by Hazell, Watson & Viney, Ld., London and Aylesbury, England. 



