Wiliwr VERSUS FRUIT.
So Mr. Seabrook, by whose name some of the best varieties of our soft fruits are now named, turns a cat-i'-pan, sells his extensive farms and concentrates on a few acres. A little later he and his son were able to become—what shall I say ?— extensively intensive ; and the little farm swelled like the Harrow cricket ball. It was twelve acres in 1887. It had grown to 700 acres in 1925; and its owner, whose name has a scientific as well as a practical cachet, is brave enough to write a book called "How to Make £50 an Acre." He comes of a long line of English yeomen. He is a farmer not a theorist. His conclusions demand attention. They issue from both personal and hereditary experience ; and include acquaintance with overseas farming, both of fruit and other crops.
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