1 84 FRUIT FARMING 



well supplied, and can consume a vast quantity, but 

 producers on either a large or small scale will find it 

 pay best to send the finest only for London sale. It 

 is manifestly unfair to send the best only to distant 

 markets, and the inferior to London, because the 

 carriage is less, for it is a known fact that (as a rule) 

 London buyers always give higher prices for selected 

 fruit than provincial markets can realise. There is a 

 growing demand for fruit jellies, flavourings, temperance 

 drinks, jams, preserved and bottled fruits, and further 

 developments of these industries are to be looked for, 

 not only in a trade sense, but in private families, as 

 the process is now so simple with the new and im- 

 proved automatic bottles. Already a large demand is 

 springing up for English fruit in Canada and South 

 Africa. I have not touched on the culture of fruit 

 under glass, because it is not within the scope of this 

 paper. The most prosperous branch of this culture is 

 no doubt the growth of Peaches and Nectarines. But 

 we yet require more time to know what effect the 

 maintenance and repair of the comparatively flimsy 

 glass structures of the market growers may amount to, 

 before we can consider the matter tested to an issue. 

 Tomato growing is really properly treated as a vegetable 

 industry, though on the border land between a fruit 

 and a vegetable. 



It will be observed that I take an optimistic future 

 view of the industry of fruit culture. Quite agreed. 

 And I can go further, and say that no grower who 

 has entered on the matter in a business way has ever 

 failed to make a profit, naturally largest where most 

 care is taken. Cases of failure are known, but they 

 can be traced to a want of ordinary business acumen 



