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J’iff ^anneH ^ ^on6’ Autumn '€ata{ogue. 
^ COME AND SEE ^ 
Our Fruit La.nds a.t Eynsford during the fruiting season, and inspect the very Trees and 
thousands of others bearing fine fruit ; and if any of our customers decide to plant we ask a trial order 
to give the greatest confidence that our Trees are the best to bo obtained 
«l FRUIT PLANTATIONS l> 
The Official Government Returns state Kent continues to make the most rapid advance 
and during the past decade has increased 7,000 acres. 
“With all due respect to the horticultural knowledge of the immortal Shakespeare, I shall not follow his 
advice about wounding the bark of fruit trees to let out superfluous sap and blood. The reason is that I have to 
deal with what the natives call a ‘ cankery ’ soil, and amongst the Apples we get plenty of this evil without 
encouraging it by wilful bruising of the bark. It should be remembered that Shakespeare wrote in the old 
blood-letting days when surgery consisted largely of using the lance on patients. Perhaps it was thought that the 
blood-spilling that was supposed to be so good for human nature would also be beneficial in the case of fruit trees — 
hence the practice of bark bruising. Modern science, however, has proved the fallacy of blood-letting, and also in 
the case of fruit trees we can adopt better measures for checking excessive vigour than mutilating the bark, 
inviting the presence of canker, and making a home for the woolly Aphis.” — Spy, Gsupeners’ Magazine. 
UPItlOBT HABIT OF GROWTH. 
SI-EEADING HABir OF GROWIH. 
