of every acre given to these cultures attains £33, 10s.99 Their character, as well as the amount of skill displayed in, and labour given to, these cultures, will best appear from the following illustrations.
About Roscoff, which is a great centre in Brittany for the export to England of such potatoes as will keep till late in summer, and of all sorts of vegetables, a territory, twenty-six miles in diameter, is entirely given to these cultures, and the rents attain and exceed £6 per acre. Nearly 300 steamers call at Roscoff to ship potatoes, onions and other vegetables to London and different English ports, as far north as Newcastle. Moreover, as much as 4,000 tons of vegetables are sent every year to Paris.100 And although the Roscoff peninsula enjoys a specially warm climate, small stone walls are erected everywhere, and rushes are grown on their tops in order to give still more protection and heat to the vegetables.101 The climate is improved as well as the soil.
In the neighbourhoods of Cherbourg it is upon land conquered