Fruit Cultivation. 
1^1 = 481 
lit, and under favourable circumstances they come into full 
taring in three years and continue to bear for six years, 
'le plants are propaf^ated by the long runners, and are set in 
i,vs 2 feet 6 inches wide, and about 1 foot G inches from plant 
t plant in the rows, giving about 10,500 plants to an acre, 
le rows are put thus far apart to diminish labour expenses, by 
leing between the rows with horses ; and some growers have 
lely put the plants 2 feet G inches apart each way, so that the 
Irse-hoe may be worked in all directions. Just before the fruit 
l?ins to change colour, rough farmyard-manure is laid under 
t; plants to keep the fruit from dirt. Strawberries are picked 
' T early in the morning before the sun is up, and gangs of 
i n and boys go forth at 3 A.M., and leave off picking at 7 A.M. 
luit thus picked realises as much as I*. per lb. in the 
clier part of the season. The best fruit is sold for eating, and 
t! second-rate is sold for jam. It is not unusual for as much 
r 100/. to be made of an acre of strawberries, but an average 
j )fit is about 20/. per acre. The strawberries that are chiefly 
pwn are, the British Queen, Keen's Seedling, Elton Pine, 
lincess Alice, Comte de Paris, Goliath, Alice Maud, and 
1 3sident. 
The small acreage of fruit-land in Wales is distributed prin- Acreage of 
oallv among the following counties, viz. : — fruit-land in 
* ® ' Wales very 
Acres. s^all. 
Brecon 859 
Radnor 499 
Montgomery 337 
Glamorgan 258 
Mich border upon England. This, for the most part, consists 
( apple-orchards planted in the valleys, whose produce is 
lerally made into cider for the work-people. 
In Scotland, the counties of Lanark and Perth alone have an Climate of 
; -eage worth mention : there being: in the former 493 acres, 
1-11 o-To o r r • 1 1 favourable tor 
; 1 in the latter county o7o. Soit iruits only are grown, as the f,uit-growing. 
(mate is too cold for apples and pears to ripen. Strawberries 
; ■ very successfully cultivated in Perth and Edinburgh. In 
76, a grower in the former county was offered 100/. per acre 
I 28 acres planted with strawberries. Enormous quantities 
( currants and damsons are sent to Scotland from England to 
I made into jam. 
Fruit is grown in the United Kingdom, as a rule, only upon 
t; two systems that have been described above, at least upon 
large scale and for market purposes. There are some few 
)wers here and there, who grow fine apples, pears, and plums, 
on pyramidal trees, and Ioav bush-trees obtained by grafting 
on Paradise stocks, which are easily pruned, and in some cases 
