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have always maintained that this should be done ; 

 with improved culture v/e shall produce better fruits ; 

 and there is but little doubt that the general public 

 will soon learn to discriminate between the bright 

 but dry and often flavourless American kinds and 

 fresh home grown English Apples. None of the 

 foreign Apples cook like those home grown. 



George Bunyard & Co.'s Fruit Room.— A supply 

 of Apples can be kept for ten months in a properly 

 constructed Fruit Room. Among the Collections which 

 were exhibited at the Temple Shows, London, in May 

 (and for which the firm have gained many Silver 

 Cups) September Apples were staged in good condition. 

 The main point in preserving fruits is to allow ample 

 time for them to become thoroughly ripened before 

 gathering, and then to store the fruit at an even 

 temperature ; the natural earth is by far the best floor, 

 if kept damp. We can send photographs of this Fruit 

 Room, with printed description, as a guide to intending 

 builders, on receipt of 2/6. Our Allington Fruit House 

 is merely a match-boarded shed, thickly thatched, and 

 it answers the purpose admirably, and has been much 

 commended by visitors, and those who have followed 

 our directions in building similar structures have been 

 most successful in storing fruit in a sound condition 

 over a long period. 



The enormous importations of Apples from Tasmania, 

 California, Canada and America, compete very unfairly 

 with British grown fruit ; some allege that they enable 

 many shops to kcrp open all the year, and thus help 

 the trade. Doubtless the careful manner in which they 

 are packed enable grocers to haiulle tliem, but growers 

 are now planting early sorts and very lat»> cookers, 

 and thus clearing out before these come to hand. 



