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as boric acid; and of other plans which have been proposed 

 for improving crop growth. Some of these offer a certain 

 amount of promise, others do not; none of them is yet in a 

 stage to recommend to farmers. In reporting on these new 

 ideas it is often necessary in fairness to the farmer to insist 

 that they are not yet ripe for practical application. Yet it 

 is always hoped that inventors will not be discouraged but 

 w T ill go on and try again, for it is only by steady and persistent 

 effort in face of repeated failure that success will finally be 

 attained, and that agriculturists can hope to make progress 

 comparable with that of engineering and of the chemical 

 industry. 



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IMPERIAL FRUIT SHOW. 



Descriptions have been given in articles in previous issues 

 of this Journal of the manner in which the Ministry and the 

 Horticultural Industry generally have been cooperating 

 with the " Daily Mail/' in order to secure the successful 

 organisation of this great Show, which w r as held at the Crystal 

 Palace from the 28th October to 5th November, 1921. The 

 Show was formally opened by The Et. Hon. Sir Arthur 

 Grifnth-Boscawen, M.P., Minister of Agriculture. 



Sir Arthur Griffiih-Boscawen , in opening the show, said that 

 probably never before had there been such a show of fruit in 

 the history of the world. He wished at the outset to recognise 

 the energy, the generosity and the support of the Proprietors 

 of the " Daily Mail " in enabling the Exhibition to be held. 

 He recognised that the " Daily Mail " had performed a great 

 Imperial service. Continuing, the Minister said : " The history 

 of the Exhibition is this. We at the Ministry and the principal 

 commercial fruit growers have been anxious for some time 

 to improve and extend the cultivation of fruit in this country. 

 For that purpose a number of local exhibitions in the principal 

 fruit-growing districts, especially at Maidstone in Kent, 

 Worcester in the West Midlands and Wisbech in the Eastern 

 Counties, have been held in recent years, and those exhibitions 

 have done a great good in bringing the growers together and 

 letting them compete against each other, but it was thought 

 there should be something bigger than these exhibitions, that 

 the persons in these districts should not compete merely 



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