EXPORTATION FROM GREAT BRITAIN OF BOTTLED FRUITS, JAMS, ETC. 



(United Kingdon Trade and Navigation Returns). 



The total value for 1909 being 2 222 419 (frs 56 116079). 



DUKE OF BEDFORD and SPENCER N. PICKERING. The Blossoming 

 of Apple trees. Twelfth Report of the Woburn Experimental, 

 Fruit Farm. London, 1910, p. 35-51. 



The general results may be briefly summarised as follows : Apples 

 which are early in ripening, blossom, on the average, two or three 

 days earlier than late varieties ; but this is only a general rule to 

 which there are many exceptions. The character of the fruit (dessert 

 or cooking) has no effect on the relative date of blossoming. The 

 actual date on which blossoming commences has no definite effect 

 on the period over which the coming into blossom of a number of 

 different varieties will extend; this seems to be determined solely 

 by the weather conditions prevailing at the time. Some varieties 

 habitually blossom earlier or later than others, but in the majority 

 of cases such early or late habits are so little marked that, on the 

 average, they exercise only about one third as much influence in 

 determining the order of blossoming as do the weather conditions 

 at the time, so that it is futile to attempt to draw up any precise 

 list of the order of blossoming of a large number of varieties. On 

 the average, the same variety will occupy a place in such a list 

 2 7 2 days different in one season from what it occupies in another, 



(i) These figures comprise also confectionery made from sugar without 

 any other ingredients except flavouring and that containing chocolate. 



