Identifier: gardenerschronic35lond (find matches)
Title: The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects
Year: 1874 (1870s)
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Subjects: Ornamental horticulture Horticulture Plants, Ornamental Gardening
Publisher: London : (Gardeners Chronicle)
Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries
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ntage of finding300,000 small holdings under £15 valuation alreadyin existence marked out for combined fruit, vegetable,dairy, and poultry farming. The two last mentionedbranches of farming are undergoing considerableimprovement, while fruit and vegetable growing arealmost entirely neglected in a soil and climateeminently suited for bush fruit growing. Were these 300.000 holdings in Belgium orSwitz.erland, their small cultivators would inundateBritish markets with their produce, in Irelandthis very considerable source of wealth is almostignored. I say almost, for only this very mcrning I hayehad the immense satisfaction of seeing my ideal o(combined fruit and vegetable growing in actual androost successful operation in the village of Gorraana-town, near Balbriggan. It is a long way the mostencouraging spectacle I have witnessed during myrepeated visits to Ireland in seareh of anything hope-ful in any direction. I am happy to be able to add JpsE 20, 1889.) THE GARDENEBS CHRONICLE. 805
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l^ffi. 128.—AGAVE DASYLIRIOIDES: MUCH REDUCED. (sEE P. 804 J 806 THE GARDENERS CHRONICLR (June 29, 1889. that the fruit growing experiment is not confined toGorraanstown, but is to be met with in equally suc-cessful operation in the villages of Julianstown, Naul,Balscadden, Stamullen, and Duleek. The holdings vary from one to about four Irishacres, and the average net profit from each acre, oneyear with another, is by comparing statements, about£2o. I know of no other use to which average landcan be pat which would yield so good a result. Fruit and vegetable growing is peculiarly suit-able to the economic conditions of Ireland, wheresmall farms and large families prevail, furnishingfree and always present labour for thinning andpicking at the critical moment. Young hands wouldthus be usefully trained to picking, not in combina-tion with stealing. The commonly reputed avarice of the Irishlandlord is strikingly absent at Gormanstown, whereuO. is the modest rent of the Irish acre of f

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