Fruits and Vegetables. 47 



paid £10, half of it the first year, and the balance at the rate 



£5 a ton will be paid on all raisins and currants produced, 

 the sum paid to any single person or association not to ex- 

 ceed ,£100 annually. For planting figs and prunes, a bonus 

 of . £l an acre is offered, and for every ton of the fruit 

 dried ^5 in addition will be paid for each hundred weight 

 of such fruit exported. A bonus of £ 5 an acre is also ^jf alian 

 of f er ed for the planting of the following fruits : Apples, al- bounties. 



gooseberries, loquats, lemons, limes, medlars, mulberries, 



plums,^ pears, quinces, raspberries and P shaddocks. For each 



encouragement of the establishment of canneries a bonus of 



than twenty tons of fruit! and £1 a ton wilf be paid for all 

 the surplus over twenty tons. On all preserved fruit ex- 

 ported to a foreign market, a bonus of 30 shillings per 

 hundred weight will be paid in addition. For planting olives 

 a bonus of ^3 per acre is offered, with a further payment of 

 1 shilling for each gallon of oil made. For peanuts a bonus 

 of £2 an acre is offered, with a further bonus of 1 shilling for 

 each gallon of oil made. 



Tins practice is opposed to that of California, where trees 

 are taxed, being considered as improvements upon real es- 

 tate. The trees are taxed before they come into bearing, as ^it-tlxe*" 

 well as afterwards. The following schedule of valuations is 

 now in use : Fruit trees, first year, $15 per acre; second 

 year, $20; third year, $30; fourth, S40; fifth, $50. Citrus 

 trees, first year, $50 per acre; second year, $75; third, $100; 

 fourth, $125; fifth, Si 5 o: sixth. S200: seventh. 225: eighth, 

 5250; ninth, $275; tenth, $300: eleventh. $325; twelfth, 

 S350; thirteenth, $375: fourteenth, $400. Vines, first year, 

 S|5 per acre; second year, $20; third, $35 ; fourth, $40; 



Germany. The condition of fruit growing in European 

 countries needs to be well studied by American exporters, 

 for the foreign fruit crop greatly influences the market Germany, 

 for American products. The present condition of fruit 

 growing in Germany was discussed recently by R. Goethe- 



