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cinq parties du monde, Paris, Hachette, 1895) at 

 1,075,000 acres four times more, in proportion to 

 the cultivable area, than in this country ; and the 

 most remarkable of it is that considerable tracts of 

 land formerly treated as uncultivable have been re- 

 claimed f9r the purposes of market-gardening as also 

 of fruit growing. 



As things stand now in this country, we see that very 

 large quantities of the commonest vegetables, each of 

 which could be grown in this country, are imported. 



Lettuces are imported not only from the Azores or 

 from the south of France, but they continue until 

 June to be imported from France, where they are 

 mostly grown not in the open air, but in frames. 

 Early cucumbers, also grown in frames, are largely 

 imported from Holland, and are sold so cheaply that 

 many English gardeners have ceased to grow them.* 

 Even beetroot and pickling cabbage are imported 

 from Holland and Brittany (the neighbourhoods of 

 Saint Malo, where I saw them grown in a sandy soil, 

 which would grow nothing without a heavy manuring 

 with guano, as a second crop, after a first one of pota- 

 toes) ; and while onions were formerly largely grown 

 in this country, we see that, in 1894, 5,288,512 bushels 

 of onions, 765,049 worth, were imported from Belgium 

 (chief exporter), Germany, Holland, France, and so on. 



Again, that early potatoes should be imported from 

 the Azores and the south of France is quite natural. 

 It is not so natural, however, that more than 50,000 

 tons of potatoes (58,060 tons, 521,141 worth, on the 

 average during the years 1891-1894) should be im- 

 ported from the Channel Islands, because there are 



* The Gardener's Chronicle, 20th April, 1895, p. 483. The 

 same, I learn from a German grower near Berlin, takes place 

 in Germany. 



