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Our Corn Crops, Roots, and Fruits 



London in particular. The Channel Islands and the 

 Scilly Islands also cultivate fruits and flowers very 

 extensively, and steamers from the former to Weymouth 

 and Southampton, and from the latter to Penzance 

 bring this produce to the English markets. Attempts 

 have been made to introduce into our country the 

 cultivation of tobacco, sugar-beet, and other industrial 



Gathering the strawberry crop, Histon, Cambridgeshire 



plants, but hitherto without much success. Experi- 

 ments have been sanctioned for tobacco to be grown on 

 about 300 acres in England and Ireland. Sugar-beet 

 is being cultivated in Norfolk, Suffolk, and Essex, but 

 large farms and the extensive use of machinery are 

 necessary to obtain paying crops from the soil. 



We must now refer briefly to the woods and forests 

 of the British Isles. In early times Britain was covered 



