We respectfully solicit orders for ours, the finest plants and most complete collection in England. 
Swanley is the largfest 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. 
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 offer 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, 5s. per 100 ; in small pots, to fruit the first season, 12s to 14.s-. per 100 ; in 
6 and 6-inch pots, for forcing, 25s. to lO.s. per 100. 
Special Pi ices per 1 ,000, 50,000, and 100,000. 
LIST OF FRUIT TREES, Post Free on application. 
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OLD AND YOUNG SHOULD EAT APPLES. 
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, 
the 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 ailmirably adapted 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 as the fond of the gods, who, when they 
felt themselves to be growing feeble and infirm, resort to this fruit for 
renewing their powers of mind and body. The acids of the apple are of 
signal use to men of sedentary habits, whose livers are sluggish in action, 
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, diminish acidity 
in the stomach rather than provoke it. Their vegetable sauces and juices 
are converted into alkaline carbonates, which tend to counteract acidity. 
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