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Nova Scotian Fruit Culture. 



The description of the glacial drifts and other superficial 

 deposits is altogether new, and contains the information collected 

 during the survey of these deposits during the year 1901. The 

 material under the heading of " Economic Geology " has been 

 greatly enlarged from the previous Memoir, and now includes a 

 list of the minerals of the district, and an account of researches 

 into the character of its soils. The previous geological literature 

 of the neighbourhood is also for the first time discussed, under 

 the heading of " Bibliography," and a list of this literature is 

 given in an appendix. The Memoir is illustrated by five plates 

 from photographs and by twenty-one figures in the text. 



The " Memoir of the Geology of the Country near Leicester" 

 contains a full account of the geology of Leicester and the 

 adjacent country northwards as far as the important granite 

 quarries of Mount Sorrel, and eastwards into the borders of 

 Rutland. The district is essentially a clay country, being 

 largely Keuper marls, Lias clays, and Boulder clay. The drift 

 deposits cover the larger part of the area, and their importance 

 from an agricultural point of view is evident. Records of boring 

 and well-sections are given, and there is a full list of fossils from 

 the Trias, Rhaetic and Lias formations. The colour-printed 

 drift map, Sheet 156, which accompanies this Memoir, has 

 attached to it a section showing the general structure of the 

 country. 



Copies of the Memoirs, price 3s. each, or of the maps, 

 price is. 6d. each, may be obtained from any agent for the sale 

 of Ordnance Survey maps, or directly or through any bookseller, 

 from the Ordnance Survey Orifices, Dublin or Southampton. 



The fruit crop of Nova Scotia in 1902 was deficient both in 

 quality and quantity, and prices were not excessively high. It 



_ „ . is stated that many thousands of youne 



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Nova Scotia. trees are neverth eless being planted each 

 year. In counties outside the fruit belt, 

 model orchards are being planted ; these orchards now number 



