FRUIT CULTURE. 



What was said of the pear, according to the old lines 

 is now changed into the following : 



" That ' Those who plant pears 



Grow fruit for their heirs,' 

 Is a maxim our grandfathers knew. 



But folks have learned since, 



If you graft on the quince, 

 The fruit will develop for you." 



Another great drawback has undoubtedly been our 

 system of land tenure. This has by no means favoured, 

 and in numberless instances has precluded, tenants from 

 entering upon fruit culture to any extent. Without 

 special arrangements with his landlord, the ordinary 

 tenant indeed cannot do so. If he were to, he would 

 have to expend a considerable sum upon what he could 

 not remove on leaving, and his landlord might object to 

 pay for it. There have been in recent years Acts of 

 Parliament passed to protect the tenant farmer, and to 

 give compensation for unexhausted improvements ; but 

 this does not seem to apply with sufficient force in the 

 ease of the planting of fruit trees to adequately protect the 

 tenant, and where there is no special arrangement it may 

 lead to as unpleasant and disastrous a result as that re- 

 corded some time since in the Sussex Advertiser, as follows : 



"LAND TEXCRE ix KENT. One of the results of the 

 unsatisfactory system of land tenure now prevailing in 

 this country is to be seen at Knockholt, Kent. The lease 

 held by Mr. Edwin Bath, of Curry Farm, in that parish, 

 expires at Michaelmas, and he is not allowed to renew his 

 tenancy, nor can he recover compensation from his land- 

 lord for a valuable plantation of raspberries on the farm. 

 Consequently, the extraordinary spectacle may now be 

 seen of a reaping machine cutting down, and a steam 



