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3,633 tons of Brocoli, and 2,591 of Potatoes were sent by 
railway from West Cornwall during the year which ended en the 
30th ult.* 
In the fertile parish of Gulval and its immediate neighbour- 
hood there are now under culture— 
about twelve acres of onions,t 
elehtor ten 5, asparagus,— 
four _ pease,— 
three or four __,, carrots,— 
twelve sy strawberries,— 
seven raspberries, — 
twenty-five Hs gooseberries ; 
besides black currants, which thrive under the apple trees.t 
* For these particulars,—as well as for information that from the 1st 
to the 21st of May 221 tons of new potatoes were despatched in like manner, 
—I have to thank Mr. J. D. Sheriff C.H.; Engineer of the Cornwall and 
West Cornwall Railways. 
; ‘From the neighbourhood of Roscoff two million Ibs. (893 tons) of 
onions are said to be sent to England only.” Patiiser, Brittany and its 
By-ways, p. 111. 
+ For these interesting details I am indebted to the Reverend W. 
Wriothesley Wingfield, M.A.; Vicar of Gulval, and Chairman of the Guar- 
dians in the Penzance Union. 
“My. Thomas of Gulval estimates the extent and value of the Market- 
garden produce near Penzance as follows : 
Acres Waces Parp. VALUE OF CROP. 
Crop. a nions —o >is -_S @# 
tion. Peracre. Total. ||Per Acre. Total. 
IBTROGOIN ~gooqaaco 500 £4 | £2,000 £20 | £10,000 
PRoiatoeseaeenrcie. 500 9 4,500 50 25,000 
OmoOnds coco 6600 80 10 800 40 3,200 
Asparagus ....0- 7 10 70 60 420 
Gooseberries .... 50 8 400 30 1,500 
Raspberries.....| 10 8 80 40 400 
Black currants .. 25 8 200 35 875 
£8,050 £41,395 
Bourrno (W:) Address to the Western Cottagers Gardening Society (Cornish 
Telegraph) 31st August, 1870. 
Tee is now largely manufactured in the neighbourhood; principally for 
use in packing the mackerel sent to distant markets; but it has been sug- 
gested that the ground in which brocoli are planted, during summer, may be 
more cheaply and effectually moistened by the gradual thawing of slightly- 
covered bits of ice, than by watering the surface. The practice, however, is 
by no means a general one. 
