744 = 475 
Fruit Cultivation. 
'jreencrairos 
and fruit-bushes, or plum-trees, are set between them. Af 
a few years, when the cherry-trees have come into bearing, t 
bushes and plum-trees are taken away, and grass-seeds i 
sown. The chief sorts of cherries grown are the Adam's Croi 
Heart, the Black Heart, May Duke, Turkey Heart, Bigarre; 
Purple Jean, Waterloo, Kentish, Flemish, and Frogmore. 
Greengages are grown extensively in the eastern part of Ke 
near Sittingbourne, where the soil is especially suited lor th' 
production. The gages grown here are finely flavoured a 
well coloured, and as much as 100/. in one year has been ma 
from an acre planted with them. Plums and damsons, especia 
a species of the latter known as the " Crittenden," are larg( 
grown in Kent, and are very profitable in most seasons. In t 
last season a sharp white frost, late in the spring, so cut up 1 
bloom that the crop Avas an utter failure, and in some cases t 
trees themselves were killed. 
Gooseberries ; Fruit-bushes, as gooseberries, red, white, and black curran 
red, white, and and raspberries, are planted under apple, plum, or damson-tre 
ac cunan frequently by themselves. In the former case they are : 
6 feet apart, or 1210 trees to the acre ; in the latter, 5^ feet, 
1420 trees to the acre. Land thus planted is well manured • 
the autumn with woollen rags, shoddy, or fish manures, and di 
by hand with the three-tined spud, which is also used for diggi 
the hop-plantations. The bush-trees are closely pruned in Novel 
ber, as in the accompanying Illustration (Fig. (5), and the land 
kept carefully hoed during the summer. Immense quantities 
gooseberries and red currants * are grown in Kent, Worcest( 
shire, and Gloucestershire, and are sold for eating, bottlir 
and jam-making. Black currants are grown upon the heav. 
soils in Kent, upon the Atherfield clay and the more retenti 
clays of the Greensand formation, and are a very profital 
crop. There are also lar 
I 
Fig. 6. — Pruned Gooseherry-tree. 
plantations of black currai 
on the stiff land near Cai 
bridge which are remarkat 
productive. As the fruit 
grown upon young wood, t 
old wood is cut away closely 
each autumn season. In t 
case of red currants, the fruit 
mainly grown upon old spu 
and the young shoots therefo 
are cut away. All these fru 
* The average price of gooseben-ies in London is 2d. per lb. ; 
per lb. ; of black cm-rants, 3d. per lb. ; raspberries, 2^{d. 
berries, 5Jd. per lb. 
of red currai 
per lb. ; stm 
