REPORT OF THE APPLE AND PEAR CONFERENCE. 



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pensive in Jersey that no room can be spared for unproductive 

 trees (which is the case whilst the tree is growing). 



The Jersey farmer, cultivating twenty acres of land, and 

 making a comfortable living off so small a surface, cannot afford 

 to allow a single perch of it to remain unproductive, and every 

 square yard is made to contribute towards the general expenses. 

 The space allotted to kitchen gardening and fruit culture is 

 generally near the homestead, the pathways being planted on 

 either side by bush apple and pear trees, currant and gooseberry 

 trees filling up the intervening spaces in the rows until the trees 

 have grown sufficiently large to cover the whole space. These 

 highly- cultivated and richly-manured pieces of ground are made 

 to produce crop after crop in rapid succession. No sooner is 

 one crop off the ground than another replaces it (organic, and 

 not artificial manures being used). The trees get the benefit of 

 these repeated dressings and the manipulation of the soil. 



FEIDAY, OCTOBEE 19. 

 Haery J. Veitch, Esq., F.L.S., F.R.H.S., in the Chair. 



FRUIT PEODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION FROM A 

 PROVINCIAL POINT OF VIEW. 



By Mr. F. J. Baillie. 



I feel some explanation is needful for the introduction of a 

 paper which does not profess to be technical before such an 

 audience and upon such an occasion, but I have long held the 

 belief that, whilst we pay strict attention to the practical points 

 or strictly technical details which rightly claim the closer atten- 

 tion of the specialist, w^e ought to give some prominence to 

 particulars which, we may say, constitute the fringe of a subject. 



Whilst these are, perhaps, of a too general character to 

 possess much charm for the person intent upon some particular 

 detail, they serve to put us in touch with the public, and thus 

 are helpful in removing popular prejudices ; or there is a sense 

 of separation somehow between those to whom we look for fruit 

 consumption and those to whom we look for fruit production. 



I knew, too, that there would be gentlemen of wide practical 

 experience, whose names are in the front rank of the honourable 

 record of present-day horticulture, taking active part in these 

 proceedings, and I thought that they would treat of particular 

 phases of the subjects irresistibly suggested by a "National 

 Fruit Conference." 



