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delicately, and graded - size, will do more towards teaching fruit-culture 
than a legion of expert 
“ It is, therefore, "im at this CUM gage of args ie D English 
fruit.grower who now despairs of ng pro t home is invited to 
come to the Cape and take his onimi by ae for elock. Tti is a pity, 
too, that the foreign capital which comes Capewards goes mostly into 
mining stock. It were well if some of it were invested in the healthier 
industry of fruit-eulture. Perhaps ere long the one or two meng 
which have already got into working order will form an example to 
other companies and friendly competitors in a trade which is practically 
illimitable. 
* We have said that all the sae i appliances for a growing export 
fruit trade have been initiated he It is not therefore as if new- 
comers, throwing their practical GREG eo and their little eapital into 
Cape init growing, would find difficulties in the outlet for their 
clever and enterprising American grov The seasons fall conversely 
with those of England. Jonsequently t the only competitors in our 
special line and special time of exporting will be the Australians, who, 
however, are heavily handicapped by a one-third greater distance from 
England. 
“This general arrangement must not be taken too absolutely. The 
seasons on the two sides of the Colony, west and east, are differentiated 
much as are those of India, by the rainfall occurring conversely. In 
fact, the Cape is a monsoon countr y, the west having its maximum 
rainfall i in winter, while the east has it in the warmer "months There 
is this peculiarity also in the east, that there are two maxima, namely, 
the November or spring rains, and the autumn rains in pre uary. 
* From these peculiarities arise important results in frait-growing. 
The most striking is the the limitation of unio pe fitable wine, 
grape, and raisin produetion to the Western Province, which possesses 
the necessary hot and dry summers for the proper ripening of the fruit 
reduced to a bets of Bope aii yn it is tate h if mrt 
statement, subject to € and ste an «iei bes ent pe 
niae conditions. For ample, results have been obtained in 
the somewhat intennodisie climate of the Karoo, particularly at Graaf 
aint and its neighbourhood. The total rainfall eae ia the 
Karoo averages low, say 16 to 19 inches annually, as compared with 28 
to eA — in Siren normal eastern region. But the pulë holds good in a 
general way, a lance at Gamble’s diagrams of rainfall, where the 
curve is plotted p a large number of places, so as to be readily com- 
parable by tne eye, will enable one to determine where viticulture on a 
large scale ıs climatically favoured, and where it will present speci 
difficulties. In the former case the rain eurve for January, February, 
and co e ripening and vintage mo OR at or below 
the best examples of local eastern exceptions to the he rule. But 
even here grapes will have to be tended with very mueh greater care 
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