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and shippers of s are not men of capital, and, for this reason, à 
Jisediuns shipment may mean in individual instances the abandonment 
s further efforts i in ithir direction. It dap eke for the building up of a 
a permanent trade that the nascent industry should be nursed b 
vae 
experienced persons. The Dominica fruit shipped to London should 
be received by a firm willing to take some trouble to obtain good prices 
ys it, until wide channels E. its disposal are regularly opened up. In 
rich countries where men o i n be foun y to 
necis in such undertakings, all this would be done as a matter of 
course, ominica i and too backward to be able to go 
rse, but 
about the starting of new industries in such a way as to be able to 
guarantee success, " ence has shown that the poe of the island 
will not embark in a new undertaking unless it be satisfactorily 
demonstrated to them that there is money to be made in it, And really 
one cannot blame them. The crisis in the sugar trade, and the back- 
Ye bie 
of the island cannot be expected to take place unless aid comes from 
abroa 
Dominica i is, as I have shown, p fitted by range of climate, 
fertility of soil, and geographieal position, to become, for its size, one of 
these 
heir own 
perm and if this should happen it will be, I am S as fortunate 
or them as it will be for the future welfare of Dominic 
ILA, rure NICHOLLS. 
J. Cox Fillan, of Wall House Estate, has furnished the fol- 
uns —— respecting the development of the fruit trade at 
omin 
di head of the fruit trade of Dominica I confine myself 
xs $ 
could easily be effected if due regard $vere paid to pruning the trees at 
the proper time, and to other requisite modes of cultivation to doen 
that end. Anoth er drawback is es careless and alinost wanton 
"gardens" (provision grounds) or cottages. These persons as a rule 
baer no care on their trees, and are quite unconcerned igo their 
fruits are large or small, sour or sweet, stained or not; 
in their native watts “the offspring of the same mother is not always 
alike and of the same size.” I think the buyers and aes of fruit 
could to a great extent induce the growers to remedy these drawbacks 
if they were to decline to buy inferior fruit, or to make such a difference 
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