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ROYAL EXOTIC NURSERY, KING’S ROAD, CHELSEA, S.W. 
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Edited by J. FRASER, F.L.S. 
SATURDAY , AUGUST 13 th, 1898. 
NEXT WEEK’S ENGAGEMENTS. 
Wednesday, August 17th.—Shropshire Horticultural Society’s 
Show (2 days). 
Thursday, August 18th.—Leighton Buzzard Show. 
Friday, August /9th.—Devon and Exeter Horticultural 
Society's Show. 
National Co-operative Show at the Crystal Palace (2 days). 
Saturday, August 20th.—Leven and District Show. 
H|roRKON a Kentish Fruit Farm*. —In- 
formation concerning the routine of 
work on a fruit farm must needs be interest¬ 
ing to the public at large, but most of all to 
those who are cultivators or intend becoming 
so, and require information on such a burn¬ 
ing question as fruit culture. The author 
has a wide and practical knowledge of fruit 
farming as well as vegetable culture, with 
a grasp of market ways and prices; and his 
notes possessed such merit and instruction 
that Messrs. George Bunyard&Co., Maid¬ 
stone, secured the copyright of them, and 
had them reprinted in book form. The 
book runs to 83 pages, in double column, 
independently of a list of the best paying 
market fruits, and other useful information. 
The articles had been written weekly in the 
form of a calendar, sometimes of the opera¬ 
tions that require to be effected during any 
given period, but generally of things accom¬ 
plished, or what actually happened or pre¬ 
vailed in market circles during the time 
specified. The work is practically the 
doings of a fruit and vegetable farmer, from 
Christmas to Christmas, recorded as it were 
for the benefit of his fellow men. 
Dipping into the notes at the beginning 
of March, we find a record of the unusually 
mild weather that had prevailed for a fort¬ 
night previously and its effect upon fruit 
trees generally, and the earlier ones in par¬ 
ticular. Occasionally we have a few of the 
cultivator’s speculations in doing certain 
*A Year's Work on a Kentish Fruit Farm by a.prac¬ 
tical man. Being a Reprint, with a few additional 
notes, of a series ot weekly articles, in The South 
Eastern Gazette. Maidstone: Published by George 
Bunyard & Co., the Royal Nurseries. Printed at 
" Th9 South Eastern Gazette ” Office. Copyright. 
things on the off chance of being prepared 
to meet the probable requirements of the 
market and profit thereby. Instructions 
are given as to the burning of prunings and 
similar rubbish which may harbour the eggs 
of the Winter Moth. Although this moth 
ascends the trees during the last three 
months of the old year, there are other allied 
species which ascend in early spring and 
have to be combated. Evidently the author 
hasnqtime, oratall events, does not attempt 
counting the eggs which a single female 
moth may lay, so that he runs into a very 
high figure when mentioning the circum¬ 
stance. That may be owing to the effect 
produced in his eyes by the appearance of 
so formidable an enemy. We quite agree, 
however, with him that every female caught 
saves a deal of trouble afterwards. The 
demand for fresh vegetables increases in 
spring but prices rule lower, owing to the 
greater quantity obtainable as a result of 
spring growth, and to the fact that the 
public now expect cheaper vegetables. The 
latter become dearer as a rule later on if 
the spring supplies do not bridge over the 
gap till the early summer crops are ready. 
British Apples by this time are scarce, 
Dumelows Seedling or Wellington being 
apparently the mainstay. The continued 
supply of American Apples and the forced 
Rhubarb now finding its way to the market 
in quantity have a depreciating effect on 
the Wellingtons. The ruling prices for ail 
these products are given for each week. 
About the third week of March prepara¬ 
tions are made to combat the newly-hatched 
caterpillars of the Winter Moth. The 
spraying of fruit trees with Paris green or 
London purple is carefully described by a 
practical man, who has his eye upon all the 
contingencies at issue. British grown 
Apples at the same period are no longer on 
the market as a quotable commodity, though 
a few odd lots still continue to make their 
appearance. Passing on to the first week of 
August to learn what the author would be 
doing at present, we find that he has been 
extremely busy, as for weeks previously, 
gathering bush and other fruits to be sent 
for market. He does not particularly desire 
rain at the present time, as it retards the 
operations of harvesting perishable com¬ 
modities. The majority of the growers are 
of the same opinion. Early Apples and 
Pears by this time are plentiful, and such 
dessert Apples as Quarrenden, Red and 
White Juneating and Julian, are eagerly 
sought for ; but modern cooks turn up their 
nose at cooking Apples unless of respectable 
size. This would mean that the work of 
