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BULLETIN 
OF 
MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION. 

No. 11.] NOVEMBER. [1887. 

XX.—COLONIAL FRUIT. 
One of the most recent efforts of the pir to utilise their natural 
resources has been directed to the subject of fru 
re, as in the West Indies, fruit can be grown in large quantities 
and finds a ready market in the United States of America, it is but 
natural that planters, under circumstances of depression in other 
commodities, should turn their attention to fruit growing. In Colonies 
not avourably suited as the West Indies as regards convenient 
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arrangements were available at analny rates there is s little doubt targo 
quantities of fruit cata be grown and exported from Cape Colony, 
Natal, the Australian Colonies, and | Neer Zealan 
h of this, arriving in England during the winter and early spring 
months, would be readily boug to supply | the wants of the community, 
and the prices paid for such fruit as an article of luxury would doubtless 

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