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JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Statistics of Interest to British Horticulturists. 



In continuation of the statistics given in the last volume of the 

 Journal (Vol. XXVIIL, pages 597-600) the following tables of Imports 

 and Exports have been compiled from the Trade and Navigation Returns 

 for 1904, printed in February 1905 : — 



TABLE I.— SHOWING THE IMPORTS OF FRUIT AND VEGETABLES 

 DURING 1902-1904. 







Quantities 



Values 







1902 



1903 



1904 



1902 



1903 



1904 



Fruit : 



Apples, raw . . .(cwts.) 

 Apricots and Peaches, raw „ 

 Bananas, raw . . (bunches) 

 Cherries, raw . . . (cwts.) 

 Currants, raw . „ 

 Gooseberries, raw . . „ 

 Grapes, raw „ 

 Lemons „ 

 Nuts : Almonds „ 

 „ other nuts, used as trait „ 

 Oranges „ 

 Pears, raw „ 

 Plums, raw . . . . „ 

 Strawberries, raw . . „ 

 Unenumerated, raw . . „ 

 Bruit, Dried : 



llaisins . . . . „ 



2,843,517 

 16,112 

 2,804,700 

 166,359 

 76,080 

 27,564 

 632.932 

 1,003,298 

 149,574 

 783,788 



fi "ilft 107 



491,906 

 541,136 

 40.211 

 500,679 



1,295,994 

 662,459 



4,569,546 

 9,578 

 3,087,516 

 110,192 

 76,419 

 34,312 

 684,084 

 978,318 

 157,156 

 791,281 

 fi 1 7fi 7 , W 

 271,518 

 594,626 

 32,614 

 688,873 



1,159,400 

 758,191 



3,771,781 

 13,465 



3,910,511 

 260.830 

 117,352 

 36,215 

 853,572 

 989,296 

 153,015 

 706.065 



0,oOo,ZE)o 



542,624 

 493,984 

 34,524 

 654,765 



986,724 

 670,220 



£ 



1,923.474 

 33,391 

 1,060,263 

 216,421 

 92,112 

 16,919 

 676,992 

 417,152 

 554,460 

 641,394 



£,OuO, 1 I/O 



439,536 

 515,059 

 58,080 

 308,998 



1,192,816 

 1,201,378 



£ 



2,781,643 

 21,584 



1,196,889 

 167,142 

 110,535 

 28,444 

 715,057 

 406,728 

 544,934 

 667,902 



2,275 400 

 '326,463 

 622,268 

 49,362 

 449,413 



966,176 

 1,150,541 



£ 



2,118,374 

 32,907 



1,382,572 

 319,969 

 144,390 

 21,116 

 827,634 

 408,500 

 515,005 

 590,336 



2 193.144 

 510,691 

 537,485 

 49,530 

 372,575 



842,724 

 1,006,959 



Vegetables, Raw : 

 Onions .... 



(bushels) 



7,605,489 



8,619,919 



8,291,814 



999,942 



1,003,016 



1,076,413 



/ From Germany 

 „ France 



Potato J » 0hanBfii t 

 lotatos- islands J 



.(cwts.) 

 " 



258,692 

 2,248,443 



1,268,098 



2.228,695 

 2,796,483 



1,103,215 



1,661.632 

 4,157,698 



1,249,043 



44,994 

 626,271 



481,134 



422,569 

 839,791 



649,496 



334,851 

 987,243 



431,447 



„ Other 

 V countries 



}' - 



1,923,857 



3,021,809 



2,934,894 



437,033 



691,382 



686,460 







5,699,090 



9,150,202 



10,003,267 



1,589,432 



2,603,238 



2,440,001 



Tomatos . 

 Unenumerated 



(cwts.) ' 



783,894 



1,071,927 



1,134,697 



700,126 

 468,411 



953,192 

 396,784 



1,007,278 

 457,491 



Flowers, Fresh : 



_ 



- 



- 



267,281 



248,689 



242,454 



From the above table it will be seen that, while the imports of Bananas, 

 Cherries, Currants, Gooseberries, Grapes, Potatos, and Tomatos show a 

 steady upward tendency, the quantities of Oranges and of dried Currants 

 imported exhibit an equally steady decline. Many of the fluctuations in 

 the other kinds of fruit are, in a measure, due to the abnormally bad crops of 

 home-grown fruit in 190H, which necessitated a great rise in the imports 

 that year. 



But, viewing the immense imports of fruit in connection with our 

 increase in the acreage under small fruits and orchards, it would seem 

 that the consumption of fruit and vegetables per head of population is 

 rapidly increasing, especially among the so-called " lower" classes. 



The steady decline in the imports of flowers is a matter for congratula- 

 tion, and may in a large measure be accounted for by the great quantities 

 of early spring flowers —such as Daffodils, Snowdrops, &c — which are 

 grown in the Channel Islands, in the Scilly Islands, in Cornwall, Lincoln, 

 Cambridge, and Norfolk. 



