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Totar VALUE of the Negotehles į imported into the United Kingdom 
1894 :— 
ring the Year 
£ 
ero - - - za AUS 765,040 
Potatoe - 1,030,091 
Raw qoot midniüoepdid - - 1,090,970 
Total - - - 2,885,501 
The values of the imports of fruit for the same year are also striking. 
The following are the principal items :— 
£ 
APPLES (raw) - - 1,389,421 
The most hare rears sources x supply were :— 
United States of Apip - 488,114 
Ca pins ; : 7 - 317,154 
Pears (raw 411,316 
The most 'inporiant source of supply was ess 191,200 
Piums (raw) 302,105 
The most eects source of gual was N 170,826 
Comment upon "ns dem pd for the moment be deferred. A = 
whole subject has ntly engaged the attention of the Boar 
griculture which published i in its Journal for March 1895 (pp. 287 291) 
a very important article which is reproduced. 
MARKET GARDENING. 
In 1875 there were 38,957 acres of market gardens in Great Britain, 
whilst in 1894 there were no fewer than 88,210 acres, exclusive of 
vegetable crops on farms. The farmers have of late years peted 
keenly with market gardeners in the cultivation of greens and cabbages, 
with which they ean feed their stock in case of a glut in the market. 
Farraers, especially those near railways in direct communication with 
good markets, also grow, to a considerable extent, peas for podding, 
broad beans, turnips and turnip-greens, and early potatoes. They have 
not yet cultivated, at least in any important degree, those vegetables 
which ae a es deal of labour, such as onions, carrots, parsnips, 
cucumbers, 1 beans, radishes, &c.; with respect to these, how- 
ever, the pikes, vi es are more or less severely interfered with by 
foreign supplies, which grow larger year by year 
Foreign competition has made itself felt in respect of early vegetables 
and salads, which are Serta some s Ar before those grown in 
England are ready for market. Early turnips, carrots, peas, and 
French beans from France, the Canary an ds, Madei shin and Algeria, 
arrive tong before English market-gardeners can ‘supp y these vegetables, 
oot own expensive crops are ready, the fancy prices have 
sisi iu © foreigners’ pockets, and as market-gardeners say, “ the edge 
of the ipeto for this early produce has been taken off.” The same 
applies to salads, notably to lettuces, which are imported in large 
quantities from France and the Canary Islands as early as January, 
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