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LIST OF FRUIT TREES, Post Free on application. 
Canncll & Sons’ Comi^lctc Seed Gnidc. 
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We respectfully solicit orders for ours, the finest plants and most complete collection in England. 
Swanley is the largest and best Strawberry-growing district in the world. 
Eight Acres grown entirely for the Runner 'Plants, at a distance of 4 ft. from plant to plant, on 
purpose so that every plant is true. 
IS" Strawberries, like Potatoes, are always more fruitful when given a change of soil, consequently success depends a good deal on having 
runners from a purely different soil. 
Our Establishment being located in the midst of hundreds of acres of all the best Strawberries and Raspberries enables ns to O0er fine plants and 
good sure-cropping kinds at the lowest prices. 
Swanley has again this season far excelled all other localities for its quantity and quality of fruit. 
Rooted Runners from fruiting plants, all best rooted and picked, 6s. per 100 ; in small pots, to fruit the first season, 12s. to 14.s. per 100 ; in 
6 and 6-inch pots, for forcing, 2.'>s. to 40.s. per 100. 
Special Prices per 1,000, 50,000, and 100,000. 
OLD AND YOUNG 
THE VALUE OF APPLES AS FOOD. 
There is probably a good dietetic reason underlying our accepted use of 
apples, or apple sauce, with pork, rich goose, Yorkshire pasty, mincemeat, 
and similar dishes. Apples have excellent medical qualities. Chemically, 
ttie apple is composed of vegetable fibre, albumen, sugar, gum, chlorophyl, 
mallic acid, gallic acid, lime, and much water. Furthermore, the German 
analysts say that the apple contains a larger percentage of phosphorus than 
any other fruit or vegetable. The phosphorus is admirably adopted for 
renewing the essential nervous matter, lecithin, of the brain and spinal cord. 
It is, perhaps for the same reason, rudely understood that the old Scandi- 
navian traditions represent the apple ns the food of the gods, who, when they 
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SHOULD EAT ADDLES. 
felt themselves to be growing feeble and infirm, resort to this frnit for 
renewing their powers of mind and body. The acids of the apple are of 
signal use to men of sedentary habits, whose livei's are sluggish in acMon, 
those acids serving to eliminate from the body noxious matters, which, if 
retained, would make the brain heavy and dull, or bring about jaundice or 
skin eruptions or similar troubles. The mallic acid of ripe apples (either 
raw or cooked) will neutralise any excess of chalky matter engendered by 
eating too much meat. It is also a fact that such fresh fruits as the apple, 
the pear, and the plum, when taken ripe and without sugar, dimmish acidity 
in the stomach rather than provoke it. Their vegetable sauces and juices 
are converted into alkaline carbonates, which tend to counteract acidity. 
PORTION OF OUR 
EXHIBIT OF APPLE5 
PEARS. PLUMS &c. 
