January 26,1894. 
JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER, 
73 
“ The variety of Apples and Pears grown at DufEus House is very 
remarkable. We are accustomed to look to foreign countries for much 
of our fruit supply, and for the importation of Apples alone from 
America and Tasmania enormous sums of British money are annually 
paid. But if the cultivation of fruit were more generally attended to, 
and the fact better understood that it was possible to grow in this 
country the fine varieties enumerated in these lists, then fruit would 
the best of vegetable food. In Germany and America, for instance^ 
rich and poor alike are well aware of this. Their value is not yet 
fully realised in this country, and especially among the working 
classes. But if a wider knowledge existed of the fruit-producing 
capabilities of our soil, under proper modes of cultivation, there can 
be no doubt that the value of Apples as a cheap and wholesome 
artic’e of food would be more generally recognised.” 
Fig. 11.— H^MANTHUS LINDENI. 
become much more common as an article of diet, and we should pay less 
money to the foreigner. It has been said 
‘ A cooked Apple a day 
Keeps the doctor away,’ 
and there can be no doubt that Apples, either baked or cooked, are 
Besides general lists, selections of the different kinds are given, 
such as Apples, Pears, Plums, Apricots, Peaches, Nectarines, Cherries, 
and Strawberries. The pamphlet, published at the Express OflBce, 
175, High Street, Elgin, contains a good and cherished collection 
of fruits. 
