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Hints on Vegetable and Fruit Farming. 
sorts, and send them to market directly they are fit to dig. 
TuKNIPS also bring high prices in some seasons, and there would 
be no difficulty in getting an acre or two sown with White 
Dutch or Early Stone turnips in March for market, if prices were 
good ; there would be no loss here, as they would come in for 
the sheep if they could not be sold. Various small things 
might be raised in farm-gardens which would bring in ready 
money and be very profitable. These cultures should not be 
despised because they are trifling and insignificant. Parsley, 
mint, thyme, beet, asparagus, and other herbs and vegetables 
are among these things. Those that have been enumerated 
above are the most important, and most suitable for cultivation 
upon a large scale. When the cultivators have found out the 
pleasant results of growing those that have been described, 
they will be keen enough to adopt any others which they may 
think will pay. 
Feuit-Growing. 
Many of the remarks that have been made concerning vege- 
table-growing will equally apply to fruit-growing. By far the 
greater part of the land in England will grow fruit of some 
sort or other. The sorts that may be peculiarly suited for cer- 
tain districts may be ascertained from examination of the 
fruit-trees in the gardens, and, at least in the case of quick- 
growing bush fruit-trees, by planting some as an experiment. 
The garden of the farm should be made the base of operations 
with fruit-trees as with vegetables, and the extension of their 
culture may be made large or small, with these fruits, or with 
those fruits, according to circumstances. It would for instance 
be most unwise to form an apple-orchard or a cherry-orchard or 
plum=orchard in a locality where these fruit-trees had previously 
not been cultivated, until careful inquiry had been made and 
the opinion of experts obtained ; or to plant any particular sorts 
of these without first finding out, as far as possible, whether 
it M'ere likely that the conditions of soil, climate, and situation 
would suit them. 
A tenant would hardly plant fruit-bushes or fruit-trees unless 
he had a lease ; he should also have a guarantee of payment for 
the increased value that he had imparted to the land. He 
would hardly be justified in planting standard fruit-trees unless 
he were assured of definite and sufficient compensation for this 
improvement. In some fruit-growing counties it is customary 
for the landlord to find the standard trees and the tenant to pay 
for planting them, but no special compensation for unexhausted 
improvements is allowed. In the Agricultural Holdings Act 
