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Market Gardening in the Vale of Evesham. 
Current Account. 
Expenditure. 
Income. 
£ 
s . 
d. 
A 
s. 
d. 
Manure, 250 tons @ 6.s. . 
75 
0 
0 
Lettuce, 1,700 doz. @ Is. . 85 
0 
0 
Labour — 
Cos lettuce, 400 doz. @ 
Proprietor 
50 
0 
0 
3s 60 
0 
0 
Assistant 
40 
0 
0 
Carrots, 3,000 bunches @3*2. 37 
10 
0 
Extra labour 
10 
0 
0 
Cauliflowers, 200 doz. @ 
Water, 200,000 gals. @ Is. 
2s. 6 d 25 
0 
0 
per 1,000 
10 
0 
0 
Radishes, estimate . .10 
0 
0 
Painting .... 
10 
0 
0 
Cucumbers (170 lights), 
Seeds .... 
3 
0 
0 
1.000 doz. @ 1.?. . . 50 
0 
0 
Rent .... 
12 
0 
0 
Melons (160 lights), 480 
Rates .... 
3 
0 
0 
@ Is. . . .24 
0 
0 
Sundries .... 
15 
0 
0 
Outdoor crops from 1J 
Depreciation — 
acres . . .60 
0 
0 
Frames, 20 per cent. 
16 
10 
0 
Lights, 10 per cent. 
12 
8 
0 
Rest, 5 per cent. . 
16 
0 
0 
Interest on Capital @ 5 
per cent. 
25 
16 
0 
Profit .... 
52 
16 
0 
£351 
10 
6 
£351 
10 
0 
Fruit Culture 
has become very important and extensive in the Yale of 
Evesham, and probably the district is better known throughout 
the United Kingdom for its plums than for any other crop. 
Truly the vast area occupied by this fruit tree is surprising to 
any visitor. In all directions the plantations extend for miles, 
and in spring the vast sheets of white blossom presented to 
view form a series of pictures “ in white and dark grey ” not 
soon forgotten. 
Within a radius of ten miles of Evesham probably there are 
upwards of 9,000 acres of plum trees ; and in years when the 
crop has totally failed, the writer has estimated the loss at 
certainly not less than 100, 000Z. 
The plum trees are variously planted ; sometimes in whole 
plantations in rows at 12 ft. or 15 ft. apart, sometimes in 
“ belts,” often in single or double rows at 30 ft. to 40 ft. 
apart, the intervening space being cropped in turn with 
different kinds of vegetables, such as cabbage, peas, marrows, 
runner beans, or spring onions, whilst other breadths are 
devoted to asparagus. 
The varieties of plums chiefly grown are Pershore, Victoria, 
Czar, Damascene, White Perdrigon (grown under the name of 
White Magnum Bonum), Rivers’ Early Prolific, and Heron ; 
the first four predominating. Belle de Louvain, Cox’s Emperor, 
and Jemmy Moore are also grown in small quantities. A new 
variety, said to be a purple variety of Pershore, possessing all 
