PART III. 

 FRUIT TREES 



AND MISCELLANEA. 



FRUIT GROWING. 



To the Editor of the " Times" January 1889. 



SIR, Lord Fortescue has done an essential service 

 to the public by his letter to "The Times" of 

 December 27th, calling attention to and exposing the 

 fallacies that have been recently uttered and written on 

 the subject of fruit growing. The admirable letter of 

 your correspondent "F.R.H.S.," published in your columns 

 of the 2Qth inst, is a valuable sequel to it, and both 

 should be read and digested by everyone who may think 

 of engaging in this important branch of national industry, 

 I do not write without experience, having been engaged 

 for more than forty years in the study and cultivation 

 of fruit trees on an extensive scale. As the outcome of 

 this experience, I am satisfied in my own mind that 

 there are thousands upon thousands of acres of land in 

 Great Britain and Ireland which are at present yielding 

 little or no profit to owner or cultivator which might be 

 made to yield a handsome return to both if planted with 

 fruit trees. It is not, however, the labourer, skilled or 

 unskilled, who looks for a weekly return of his labour, 

 but the capitalist, who can afford to employ skilled labour 

 and wait for the returns, that must set the machinery in 

 motion. 



Of the larger hardy fruits, Apples and Plums stand 



