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figs or peach, or nectarine-trees. Morello cherries always sell 
well for making cherry-brandy, and for preserving, and should 
be sent for sale in cardboard boxes, with two layers in each, the 
stems being cut to about half an inch in length.* 
The best sorts for standards are the Early Purple Gean, 
Early Rivers, Adam's Crown Heart, Early Frogmore, Knight's 
Early Black, Kentish Bigarreau or Amber Heart, Elton Heart, 
Waterloo, Black Heart, May Duke, Black Eagle, Flemish, Turkey 
Heart or Turk, Florence, Kentish Cluster or Crown, Morello. 
These ripen in the order in which they are given above. Those 
that are best for pyramids are the Early Purple Gean, Belle 
d'Orleans, May Duke, Royal Duke, Flemish, Kentish Red, and 
Morello. The three last are hardy, very prolific, and their fruit 
always is in great demand. All cherries are most saleable. 
The importation of cherries from France, Holland, and Algiers 
has ceased when English cherries are ready for market. They 
sold remarkably well last year, having made from 14s. to 
30s. per sieve of 48 lbs. A landowner in East Kent, who has 
planted many acres of land with cherry-trees, cleared 420Z. in 
the last season by the fruit from 7 acres. English cherries are 
superior in flavour to those grown on the Continent, as indeed 
most of the English fruit is, and they are much appreciated by 
gourmets. As has been said before, they ripen when Continental 
cherries are over, and at a time when there is not an abundant 
supply of fruit in Paris, Brussels, and other cities. The same 
applies to plums and to soft fruits. Seeing that there is no 
duty upon fruit imported into France, and only 5 per cent, ad 
valorem upon fruit imported to Holland, and 10 per cent, in the 
case of Belgium, surely a trade might be established with those 
countries. The Kentish Railway Companies have stated that 
they are willing to give facilities of transport and a quick 
service, and it only remains for enterprising growers to open 
communications with dealers in the chief cities of those 
countries. 
This concludes the list of fruits that may be grown upon a 
large scale, the cultivation of which does not entail a great 
amount of skill or knowledge. There are other fruits whose 
cultivation could be taken up by enterprising fruit-farmers after 
a time, such as peaches, nectarines, apricots, figs, and grapes, 
out of doors, and under glass with or without heat. A great deal 
of money is made from these by the few who grow them, who 
make a business of producing luxuries for the wealthy. Judg- 
* Cherries are usually packed in lialf-sieves, holding 544 lbs. Very fine 
l$igarreaus and other kinds are sonietinies put into quarter-sieves, holding 
1'2 11)8.; but it would well jiay to put tlie very choicest fruit into 2 Ib.-boxes 
or baskets, as is done by the French growers. 
