6 FRUIT FARMING 



By dint of perseverance some provincial firms 

 command a first-class connection, although their 

 factories are not central, but it is to the high quality 

 and purity of their jams, jellies and bottled fruits that 

 their well earned success is greatly due ; while in 

 winter and spring they make sweets, candied peel, etc., 

 to keep their plant in order. 



The Exhibitions of Bottled Fruit, held by the Royal 

 Horticultural Society, has stimulated this industry, 

 and several private people have made it a paying 

 home industry. 



The railway companies are now helping the fruit 

 industry by special rates, properly ventilated cars and 

 through trains, as well as by the sale of boxes for 

 small parcels, which they carry at low rates, enabling 

 small growers to work up a private connection ; for 

 example, the South Eastern and Chatham have 

 adopted the system introduced some years ago with 

 much success by the Great Eastern Railway Company, 

 of conveying market garden and farm produce at low 

 rates between the various stations. The conditions 

 are (i) the produce shall be packed in boxes on sale 

 at the different stations, or similar ones ; (2) the 

 boxes shall be secured by nails and not by rope or 

 cord ; (3) the produce shall be conveyed at owner's 

 risk) and the carriage be prepaid, and (4) no box shall 

 be of greater weight than 6olb. 



Provided these conditions are fulfilled the produce 

 will be conveyed at a reduced charge of 4d. for every 

 2olb, and id. for every additional 5lb. or any part 

 thereof up to 6olb, including delivery within the usual 

 limits from all stations. The boxes, which are 

 intended for use once only, to avoid expenses of 



