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wo Aspects of a Fruitful Year.— 
The bountiful fruit harvest of the past 
season has been the subject of much debate 
or discussion by the provincial papers, both 
north and south of the Thames for weeks 
or even months past. In the Midlands 
some of the correspondents bewailed the 
fact that other writers had raised an outcry 
about overproduction with the result that 
it brought down the market prices to a 
figure that was altogether unprofitable; and 
that this being the case speculators pro¬ 
ceeded to buy up large quantities of fruit at 
a low figure, well knowing that the harvest 
was by no means so abundant as it was 
stated to be. Thus while the fruit growers 
practically sold their produce at a loss, the 
middle men reaped all the profit. If this 
thing actually happened the fruit growers 
ought to profit by the lesson in future and 
not give way to panic when their fruits are 
ready for market and must perforce be 
gathered or allowed to go to waste. What 
is wanted is a continuous supply and not a 
glut at one time and a corresponding de¬ 
ficiency in the course of a week or two. 
At one of the fruit conferences held at 
Chiswick in the eighties we remember 
hearing a successful, and, if we remember 
rightly, a retired market gardener, triumph¬ 
antly remark how he used to grow early 
varieties only, harvested and took them to 
market, returning with the money in his 
pocket, so that his fruit crop caused him no 
further trouble or anxiety. Competition, 
especially by foreigners, could not have 
been so keen in those days, otherwise the 
superiority of the fruit in question must 
have commanded the market. Moreover, 
it is obvious that if all the growers were to 
cultivate early varieties only, the result 
must be a market glutted with produce in¬ 
capable of being preserved until it can be 
consumed. The remedy or palliative for 
this sort of thing must no doubt be sought 
for by various expedients, such as preser¬ 
ving the fruit in various ways, so that it 
may be kept till demand overtakes the 
supply, and by finding fresh markets in 
various provincial towns, which require 
fruit, and thus to some extent relieve the 
congestion in the metropolitan markets. 
In writing to the Kent Messenger, E. D. 
Till, Esq., says that “ never, perhaps, in all 
previous experience, has so bountiful a 
season been attended with so much disap¬ 
pointment to Kentish fruit growers,” and he 
suggests that “it is not in reducing the 
sellers’ commissions, nor in any such pallia¬ 
tives, that relief can come, but in seeking 
practical methods by which the superabund¬ 
ance of one season may be stored to supple¬ 
ment the deficiencies of another or several 
seasons.” He regards it as surprising that 
hundreds of tons of stone fruit (Plums and 
Damsons chiefly, we should understand) 
should have been allowed to rot on the 
ground ungathered while we go to the 
grocer before the winter is fairly upon us 
and pay 6d. per pound for foreign prunes. 
Surely some means could be devised where¬ 
by we could convert these hundreds of tons > 
of Plums into British prunes, and S3 bene¬ 
fit the home producer, and his dependents. 
It might not pay small growers to erect 
drying apparatus for the sake of a surplus 
of fruit that only occurs intermittently ; but 
a number of them might combine together 
for the common good ; or what might be 
found more practicable, an independent 
party might start a business for the purpose 
of canning, drying and otherwise preserve 
the surplus fruit of a district. By paying 
so much a ton for fresh fruit the owners of 
the preserving plant would become the 
possessors who would thus relieve all the 
growers equitably from all further respjnsi- 
bility or care. The price might even be 
smaller than that obtainable in the market 
and y<8t leave a margin of profit for the'cul- 
tivator. Fruit drying and preserving on a 
large scale would be rnore likely to pay 
