It .is. not perhaps altogether satisfactory that it should pay
better to produce. flowers than food. Daffodils are a safer crop than potatoes, and much more valuable than corn. or beet.. Fruit takes a .middle place. In .Cambridgeshire, —as contrasted with SP9-_ ,aPertakn number of apple orchards being ruthlessly scrapped. Apple growers in the Wisbech area have had six bad years. They
do not care to take the risk of a seventh ;- and it may be that certain sorts of apple, not really suitable to the soil and • climate, were planted before they were fully tested by experience. The best apples, as the best plums, are kittle cattle. Cox's will altogether refuse to bear or - flourish hr one district, while they do well near- by, though they are not quite so exclusive as Pershore plums, which are- even fonder of Worcestershire than the Prime Minister. Never- theless, in spite of this possible exception, few cultivators in any part of the world have been quite so skilful as these- East English in discovering which crops best suit the peculiar conditions, not only of the district in general, but of this and that part of a particular farm.
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