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home grower to put up a good show) necessary to produce a 

 highly-coloured fruit of long-keeping qualities. The thick skin 

 of imported apples, though disparaged in many quarters, is 

 nevertheless a commercial asset of no small value when one 

 considers the long-keeping and good travelling qualities thereby 

 conferred on the fruit. The moist atmosphere of our summer 

 climate encourages black spot, brown rot, canker and apple 

 mildew to an extent not met with in continental climates with 

 bright, dry summer air. These fungi can doubtless be kept under 

 in England, but at an outlay considerably greater than that 

 needed in dry regions. 



3. It appears to be impossible in the presence of alternative 

 markets to get co-operative marketing associations started in 

 England with sufficient power to command the obedience of 

 their members under threat of refusal of their produce if it does 

 not conform to certain standards. Marketing thus resolves 

 itself into the efforts of the individual grower to achieve a 

 reputation for his produce in competition with the strongly 

 established reputation of imported brands zealously guarded by 

 efficient State inspection. 



4. Despite the valiant efforts of the small body of research 

 workers dealing with problems relating to English fruit, much 

 definite knowledge is still required by the home grower to enable 

 him to produce a major percentage of his crop of the high quality 

 of produce that comes in such huge quantities from exporting 

 countries. 



In the face of such disabilities it is perhaps hardly surprising 

 to find that the majority show a preference for the Bramley, 

 Newton Wonder, Lord Derby, etc. — strong-growing, heavy- 

 cropping cookers that revel in a moist atmosphere and are easily 

 kept free from black spot. For a Kentish orchard, Bramley, Lord 

 Derby, Lane's Prince Albert, and Newton Wonder might be 

 described as the grower's stand-by, that make it possible to ex- 

 periment with box fruit such as Beauty of Bath, Worcester, 

 Lady Sudely, James Grieve, Cox's Orange Pippin and Blenheim 

 Orange. 



With the help of a thorough spring lime-washing most people 

 can grow huge crops of " rank old cookers " every other year, 

 if not yearly in the case of Lane's Prince Albert ; but the growing 

 of box fruit must still be looked upon as the task of a highly 

 skilled specialist with considerable capital behind him to enable 

 him (1) to build up an individual reputation for the packing and 

 quality of his produce, and (2) to supplement present limited 



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