We respectfully solicit orders for ours, the finest plants and most complete collection in Engfland. 
Swanley is the largest and best Strawberry-growing district in the world. 
Eight Acres grown entirely for the Runner Plants, at a distance of ♦ ft. from plant to plant, on 
purpose so that every plant is true. 
W 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. 
Onr Estahlishment being located in the midst of hundreds of acres of all the best Strawberries and Raspberries enables ns to offer 6ne plants and 
good enre-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 14s. per 100 ; in 
6 and 6-inch pots, for forcing, 25s. to 40s. per 100. 
Special Prices per 1,000, 50,000, and 100,000. 
LIST OF FRUIT AND THE FINEST TREES, Post Free on application. 150 Acres. 
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OLr> AND YOUNG SHOULD EAT APPLES. 
THE VALUE OF APPLES AS FOOD. | felt themselves to be growing feeble and infirm, resort to this fruit for 
There is probably a good dietetic reason underlying our accepted use cf | renewing their powers of mind and body. TLe acids of the apple are of 
apples, or apple sauce, with pork, rich goose, Yorkshire pasty, mincemeat, i signal use to men of sedentary habits, whose livers are sluggish in ^tion, 
and similar dishes. Apples have excellent medical qualities. Cliemically, those acids serving to eliminate from the body noxious matters, which, if 
the apple is composed of vegetable fibre, albumen, sugar, gum, chlorophyl, retained, would make the brain heavy and dull, or bring about jaundice or 
mallic acid, gallic acid, lime, and much water. Furthermore, the German skin eruptions or similar troubles. The mallic acid of ripe apples (either 
analysts say that the apple contains a larger percentage of phosphorus than raw or cooked) will neutralise any excess of chalky matter engendered by 
any other fruit or vegetable. The phosphorus is admirably adapted for eating too much meat. It is also a fact that such fresh fruits as the apple, 
renewing the essential nervous matter, lecithin, of the brain and spinal cord. ] the pear, and the plum, when taken ripe and without sugar, diminish acidity 
It is, perhaps for the same reason, rudely understood that the old Scandi- j in the stomach rather than provoke it. Their vegetable sauces and juices 
navian traditions represent the apple as the food of the gods, who, when they | are converted into alkaline carbonates, which tend to counteract acidity. 
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