Fruit and Vegetables. 
By the Revd. John Foreman. 
HE growing of fruit for home consumption and 
for exportation, is exciting considerable atten- 
tion in various parts of the world. There seems 
to be almost everywhere, a growing appreciation of the 
value of fruit as an article of human food. The rapid 
communication now possible between one country and 
another, brings the fruit-grower, and large masses of 
people living in towns and cities who are eaters of fruit, 
into connection, the one with the other; and this facility 
of transit, as well as the low price at which the fruit is 
sold, has caused a greatly increased consumption of 
fruits during the last quarter of a century. A few years 
ago the Right Honourable W. E. GLADSTONE, when 
Chancellor of the Exchequer, estimated the value of 
fresh fruit imported into the United Kingdom of Great 
Britain and Ireland, as exceeding in value two millions 
of pounds sterling every year. It is probably much more 
now\ In this colony the inhabitants do not eat anything 
like the same quantity of fruit as those persons do who 
live in some of the West Indian Islands so near to us. 
At present British Guiana is behind some other colonies, 
both in the quantity and quality of the fruits grown in it. 
What little is produced, is too often grown without any 
care being taken to see that the seed, or the young tree, 
is of a good stock ; and when planted, the tree is allowed 
to grow or not, pretty much as it pleases, very little 
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