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heaps just as though it was a potato crop. Now the straw is pushed 

 back and revealed sweaty, dirty fruit with plenty of rotten ones 

 communicating the rot to their neighbours. Women with cloths 

 wiped each fruit and dropped it into a sieve, and when the sieve 

 was full a sheet of newspaper and hay were placed on top and 

 held down by crossed sticks. Nearly every fruit showed marks of 

 bruises, was more or less braised by the rubbing, and large and 

 small were indiscriminately packed together. That was the good 

 old-fashioned way in the good old-fashioned times a way which 

 simply issued invitations to more alert and methodical foreign 

 growers and packers to come over and establish themselves on our 

 markets without the slightest fear that we should ever compete 

 with them. 



These are outspoken remarks dealing with the matter generally 

 rather than specifically, intended to supplement the efforts of those 

 earnest men who in season and out of season are urging this matter 

 upon our growers, who are working not only for present gain, but 

 for the building up of our home-grown hardy fruit trade on impreg- 

 nable lines. 



SELECT MARKET VARIETIES 



While for reasons stated we deliberately abstained from recom- 

 mending any particular varieties of apples, pears, and plums as 

 the best for particular purposes, it has been suggested to us that a 

 list of the more popular varieties might be helpful. This we have 

 no hesitation in giving, but we adhere to our previous remarks and 

 would insist upon the need for local enquiries and investigations 

 as the safest course to pursue, not so much as to ascertain what to 

 grow, but to know what NOT to grow. 



12 DESSERT APPLES 



Allington Pippin. Duchess* Favourite. 



Beauty of Bath. Gladstone. 



Blenheim Orange. James Grieve. 



Cox's Orange. King of the Pippins. 



Charles Ross. Ribstone Pippin. 



Devonshire Quarrenden. Worcester Pearmain. 



