The teaching of the markets, the example of our
colonial fellow citizens with their huge fruit culture,
the example also of such homes of research as Woburn,
and the most useful instruction given by Lady Warwick
and her competent deputy Miss Edith Bradley, have
at length brought the more enlightened among us to
understand the value of growing superior qualities of
fruit, and growing more or less uniform crops, so as to
be able to contract, not indeed for the "100,000 bushels "
of uniform fruit that dealers speak of as coming from
single firms in the Colonies, but at any rate for large
consignments which will furnish supplies for some little
time. There is, once more, something like " a rent "
between an inferior and mixed apple crop from an old-
fashioned farm garden, and the neatly uniform, carefully^
graded fruit of a superior kind, selected so as to suit
the particular soil and site, which comes to us from the
Colonies. In that "forest of fruit trees " in the western
counties, 76 per cent, of whose produce in apples goes
into the cider press, the difference may not be a matter
-of very great account. Nevertheless, even in cider press-



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