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ment is necessary in the selection of suitable spots and of suitable 
sorts of fruits for planting, and special care must be taken that 
the sorts are true to their names. Planting must be thoroughly 
well done in every detail, if the best results are desired. This 
kind of ship is most easily " spoiled for want of a halfpennyworth 
of tar." Cultivation also must be carried out in a liberal manner, 
and far more attention paid to packing and setting fine fruit off 
in the best light than is now bestowed by ordinary fruit-growers. 
Fine apples and pears should be stored and only sent to market 
when they are ready for use, in order to make the best prices of 
them. Above all, fruit-growers must combine and establish a 
better mode of selling their fruit, in order to get a price more 
approximate to its real value. Already in Kent some growers 
have taken steps to form an Association to alter all this, while 
others have commenced to make contracts with retail shops to 
supply them directly. 
There is an enormous demand for fruit of all kinds, and 
intending planters must not be frightened either by fear of the 
foreigner or that, the supply will be in excess. Jam-making 
assumes larger proportions year by year, and, as has been sug- 
gested, fruit is also used for flavouring drinks of all kinds, for 
dyeing, and for making wines. Some idea of the extent of the 
jam-making trade may be gained from the following, which 
appeared as an advertisement in a newspaper in Kent, during 
the whole fruit season : — 
" To Fruit-growers, Dealers, and Others. Wanted for Cash — 
5000 bushels Green gooseberries. 
5000 „ Black currants. 
8000 ,, Green gooseberries. 
2000 ,, Red currants. 
500 „ Common apples. 
Address Covent Garden, London." 
It would be most desirable that fruit-growers should have 
some conveniences for turning their fruit into jam or jelly, in 
case of gluts in the market. The process of jam-making is 
simple, and is understood by most housekeepers. It seems that 
nothing but a good-sized copper would be required to convert 
quantities of fruit into jam, which, from its hona fide character, 
would certainly hold its own against the manufactured, strangely- 
blended concoction of ordinary smashers, who use common 
apples as a foundation. Indeed, it is alleged that marrows, 
turnips, and other vegetables are used by some of the smashing 
fraternity ; and flavoured, according to taste, with raspberries, 
gooseberries, and currants. A landowner in the Midland counties 
having planted hundreds of acres of land with fruit-trees has, 
