April  2?,  1904 
JOURNAl,  OF  HORTICULTURE  AHD  COTTAGE  GARBEXER. 
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THURSDAY,  APRIL  28,  1904. 
The  Season’  of  Blossom. 
rams 
ACCORDING  to  a  time-honoured 
theory,  a  fine  autumn  ivitli  plenty 
of  sunshine  to  ripen  up  fruit 
5vood  is  essential  in  order  to 
secure  a  crop  the  following 
season.  If  this  be  a  rule  without 
exceptions,  then  it  is  hopeless  to 
expect  much  fruit  in  the  coming  summer, 
for,  as  everyone  knows,  last  autumn  was 
a  time  of  gloomy  skies  and  continued 
but  Nature  is  not  governed  by  tlieories, 
and  lias  a  peculiar  method  of  her  owm  of  up¬ 
setting  tliem,  so  that  there  is  no  need  to  dwell 
too  much  on  the  past  when  considering  tlie  pro¬ 
mise  of  the  future. 
5Yhy  should  we  not  have  good  fruit  crops  tlias 
year?  Setting  aside  the  ripened  wood  theory, 
there  is  at  the  moment  of  writing  no  apparei.r 
reason  whatever,  for  all  through  the  past  dismal 
winter  the  wood  has  carried  a  firm  and  healthy 
look,  and  mid- April  finds  some  trees  covered  with 
blossom  whilst  others  will  be  similarly  clothed 
ere  long,  judging  from  the  swelling  state  of  the 
buds.  Above  everything  else  a  good  fruit  year 
is  ivanted,  for  while  commercial  growers  naturally 
wish  to  recoup  themselves  after  the  disaster  of 
last  year’s  famine,  the  shelves  in  the  fruit-rooms 
in  private  establishments  have  been  employed  for 
the  5v  inter  storage  of  Potatoes  and  Onions  instead 
of  Apples  and  Pears,  and  the  jam-pots  in  the 
domestic  cupboard  are  lamentably  empty  of 
liome-made  preserves,  than  w'hich  there  is  none 
so  good. 
We  have  fallen  into  the  way  of  lamenting  the 
fact  that  the  foreigner  is  a  strong  competitdr  with 
the  British  groiver  of  fruit,  and  it  is  urged  iu 
some  quarters  that  the  latter  suffers  in  conse¬ 
quence.  Quite  so,  but  wdiere  should  we  have 
been  during  the  past  winter  and  up  to  now  with¬ 
out  foreign  supplies?  Practically  fruiiK'-s,  and, 
curiously  enough,  not  a  word  is  said  ahout  the 
foreign  productions  when  the  home  giuwer  has 
nothing  to  sell.  Bless  me!  even  the  tlrongest 
supporters  of  home  industries  have  been  tempted 
to  indulge  in  a  feiv  foreign  Apples  and  Pears, 
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