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VEGETABLE AND FRUIT FARMING. 
It is a gratifying sign of the increasing interest taken in the 
minor products of cultivation that a second edition of Mr. White- 
head's pamphlet on Vegetable and Fruit Farming, originally pub- 
lished in the Journal, should have gone out of print immediately on 
its publication last April, and that a third edition should have been 
called for. 1 The pamphlet has been thoroughly revised and brought 
up to date by the author, and a section on fruit-drying has been 
added. Abounding as it does in practical suggestions, the circula- 
tion of the pamphlet amongst villagers, occupiers of allotments, and 
other cultivators could not fail to yield useful results. 
That the foreign producer is finding in this country a market 
•which should be supplied from home growth is shown by the circum- 
stance that the value of vegetables, " unenumerated," imported into 
this country from foreign countries in 1888, was 621,775/., as against 
264,525/. in 1878. In 1888 France sent 308,813/. worth of vege- 
tables to Great Britain, whilst Holland, Germany, the United 
States, and Spain respectively sent vegetables of the value of 58,932/., 
45,781/., 44,106/., and 33,229/. 
The following tables showing the dates of the arrival in England 
of vegetables from different countries, the prices made for them, 
and the average prices for English vegetables, with the approximate 
time of their arrival in market, should prove useful and instructive 
to home growers. 
Imported Vegetables. 
Name of 
Vegetable 
Date of Arrival 
Country from which sent 
Price 
New Potatoes 
Asparagus 
Cauliflowers . 
French Beans 
Peas . . . 
Lettuces . . 
Radishes . . 
Endive . • . 
Onions . . 
Carrots . . 
Cucumbers . 
Jan. to May 
Mar. to June 
Feb. to April 
Aprilto June 
Jan. to July 
Dec. to June 
April . . . 
Dec. to Aug. 
Dec. to Feb. 
April . . . 
May . . . 
Algiers and South of 
France ; Lisbon, • 
Holland . . . ., 
' Spain and France : ' 
Toulouse, Dijon, ■ 
Paris 
( North of France and i 
I Channel Islands . i 
France 
1 Africa and France : ' 
\ Algiers, Bordeaux, ■ 
( Toulon . . . ., 
France (Paris) . . . 
France (Paris) . . . 
France ( Paris) . . . 
j Lisbon, France, IIol- 1 
1 land . . . . > 
Holland 
2d. to id. per lb. 
id. to Is. per bundle 
Id. to Is. Gd. per doz. 
Gd. to 1*. per. lb. 
3d. to Sd. per lb. 
Gd. to 1*. 2d. per doz. 
id. to Is. doz. bunches 
Is. to Is. 9d. doz. heads 
3s. to 8s. per cwt. 
3d. to lOd. per bunch 
Is. Gd. per doz. 
1 Hints on Vegetable and Fruit Farming. By Charles Whitehead, F.L.S., 
F.G.S. Third Edition. Pp. 42, and 5 illustrations. Price Gd. (London: John 
Murray, 1890.) 
