598 JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



drawn up from theni in order to show the quantity and value of the 

 principal imports which are of interest to horticulturists. 



TABLE I.— SHOWING THE IMPORTS OF FRUIT AND VEGETABLES 

 DURING 1901-1903. 



Description 



Quantities 



Values 



Year 

 1901 



Year 

 1902 



Year 

 1903 



Year 

 1901 



| Year 

 1902 



Year 

 1903 



Fruit : 



Apples, raw . . .(cwts.) 

 Apricots and peaches, raw „ 

 Bananas, raw . . (bunches) 

 Cherries, raw . . . (cwts.) 

 Currants, raw . . . „ 

 Croos6 berries, rsw . ■ n 

 Grapes, raw „ 

 Lemons „ 

 Nuts : almonds „ 

 other nuts, used as fruit „ 



Pears, raw „ 

 Plums, raw „ 

 Strawberries, raw . . ., 

 Unenumerated, raw . . „ 



1,830,210 

 13,463 

 2,228,672 

 212,683 

 70,402 

 21 735 

 679',885 

 1,071,534 

 111,322 

 904.224 

 5,281,657 



O-io, oOD 



263,700 

 38.604 

 535,247 



2,843.517 

 16',112 

 2.Mi 14.700 

 166,359 

 76,080 

 27 564 

 632^932 

 1,003,298 

 149,574 

 783,788 

 6,518,107 



541,136 

 40.211 

 500,679 



4,568,413 

 9,578 

 3,087,516 

 110,192 

 76,419 

 34.312 

 687^938 

 978.318 

 157,159 

 791,278 

 6,176,789 

 271.483 

 596,182 

 32.644 

 688,876 



£ 



1,182,782 

 32^350 

 875,540 

 213,585 

 75,308 

 11 420 

 694^942 

 434,514 

 414.122 

 676,508 

 2,119.728 

 296,411 

 243.705 

 51,290 

 302,013 



£ 



1,923.474 

 ' 33^391 



1,060,263 

 216,421 

 92,112 

 16 919 

 676,992 

 417,152 

 554,460 

 641,394 



2,358,708 



A OO ROC 



515,059 

 58,080 

 308,998 



£ 



2 781 348 

 ' 21,584 



1,196,887 

 167,142 

 110,535 

 28,444 

 717,830 

 406,728 

 544,977 

 667,899 



2,275,480 

 326,463 

 622,948 

 49,362 

 449,213 



VEGETABLES, RAW : 



Onions .... (bushels) 

 / From Germany . (cwts:) 

 ,. France . „ 



lotatos- i s i au( is J ■ » 



7,295,418 

 1,256.517 

 1,906,375 



1,020,654 



7,605,489 

 258,692 

 2,248,443 



1,268,098 



8,619,719 

 2.228,695 

 2,796,483 



1,103,215 



869,397 

 237,394 

 538,536 



447,680 



999,942 

 44,994 

 626,271 



481,134 



1,003,026 

 422,569 

 839,791 



649,496 



„ Other ) 

 V countries j" " 



2,893,180 



1,923,857 



3,021,809 



627,977 



437,033 



691,048 





7,076,726 



5,699,090 



9,150,202 



1,851,587 



1,589,432 



2,602,904 



Tomatos .... (cwts.) 

 Unenumerated . . value £ 



793,995 



783,894 



1,008,435 



733,471 

 389,829 



700,126 

 468,411 



951,499 

 396,957 



Flowers, fresh : value £ 









224,911 



267,281 



248,689 



Many other horticultural products have been omitted, such as bananas, 

 chicory, coffee, tea, tobacco, and cotton, because they could not well have 

 been produced in this country, and statistics of a more generally agri- 

 cultural character have also been omitted. 



The great increase in the imports of fruit and vegetables may in 

 some measure be due to the steady improvement in the food of the lower 

 classes, and in some degree to the bad home season of 1903. The figures 

 given in Table L, however, afford considerable matter for reflection, when 

 we compare them with the exports in Table II. 



TABLE II.— SHOWING THE EXPORTS OF FRUIT dc, 1901-1903. 



Description 



Quantities 



Values 



Year 

 1901 



Year 

 1902 



Year 

 1903 



Year 

 1901 



Year 

 1902 



Year 

 1903 



Confectionery, jams, and preserved 

 fruits .... (cwts.) 



Pickles, vinegar, sauces, and condi- 

 ments .... value £ 



Provisions, unenunierated 



309,251 



333,763 



319,931 



£ 



749,572 



801,312 

 1,241,207 



£ 



846,609 



670,742 

 1,389,302 



£ 



802,879 



575,653 

 1,044,006 



The acreage at present under small fruits and market gardens is given 

 in Table ELL, and it is evident that much more fruit and vegetables 

 might be grown in nearly every part of the United Kingdom. 



