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value. Experiments conducted at G-ulval to test (a) the capacity 

 of all the early varieties, and {b) the effect of sprouting the 

 tubers in boxes, should provide valuable new information to 

 those Cornish growers who have too long followed the same 

 system. 



The Penzance area, in virtue of its temperate winter climate, 

 is able to mature broccoli in mid-winter when growth in other 

 districts has been almost stopped. Yet the district has its 

 defects — the winds are strong and bring with them salt sea 

 sprays which coat the plants, and only a few varieties, it is 

 stated, can withstand this treatment. For very many years the 

 variety of broccoli chiefly grown has been the Penzance Early 

 — a good, hardy, heavy-cropping variety with coarse heads of 

 a yellowish colour. This is not an ideal variety and experiments 

 are needed to discover a suitable broccoli possessing a smoother 

 curd and better colour and more suited to present markets. It 

 is understood that provision has been made at the Gulval plot 

 for trials during 1922 of a large number of varieties of broccoli. 

 Such experiments should be watched closely by the Cornish 

 growers and by broccoli growers in general. 



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The increasing population in the industrial parts of the north 



of England has created a large demand for fresh fruits and 



„ , , . _ .. vegetables, which in the past has been met 

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been more planting of fruit on a small scale 

 around Hull and York, and the area devoted to vegetables at 

 Selby has possibly increased, but in the main little effort has 

 been made by growers in Yorkshire to change their methods of 

 farming by substituting fruit and vegetables for grass, cereals 

 or roots. Culture of this character, which is of an intensive 

 nature, requiring skill and detailed attention, could be under- 

 taken by many of the small holders recently settled in those 

 parts of Yorkshire where the soil is suitable. 



The Yorkshire Council for Agricultural Education, to encourage 

 this movement, has decided to establish a few demonstration 

 centres throughout the county, the first having been established 

 at Osgodby in 1920. A plot of land of 4} acres, originally 

 intended for a small holding, has been given over for this purpose, 

 on which there have been built a typical small holder's house, a 

 shed for tools, packing shed and store-room complete. The land, 

 which consists of a poor sandy soil, has been well cultivated and 



