Rural England, ii., 59.

F.E. Green, The Awakening of England, pp. 116, 117.

The imports of fruit and vegetables, fresh and preserved, were £ 12,900,000 in 1909, and £ 14,193,000 in 1911, out of which fruit alone must have figured for at least £ 4,000,000. Potatoes alone, imported and retained for home consumption in the United Kingdom, figure in this item for the sums of from £ 6,908,550 in 1908 to 93,314,200 in 1910. The industry of dried fruit, and especially of dried vegetables, has not yet developed In this country, the result being that during the Boer War Britain paid a weekly tribute to Germany for dried vegetables, which attained many thousands of pounds everyweek. A nation cannot let its land be transformed into hunting reserves at the rate it is being done in this country without having to send the best and the most enterprising portion of its Population over-seas, and without relying for its daily food upon its neighbours and commercial rivals.

Thomas Smith, French Gardening, London (Utopia Press), 1909, 128 pp.; The Profitable Culture of Vegetable, for Market Gardeners, Small Holders, and Others, London (Longmans, Green), 1911, 452 pp., and a short summing up of the first of these works.

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