EXPORTED Arvi.Es.
A curious present fact in the sale of English produce is worth some emphasis. A good many growers of English apples, though their trade is always heavily handicapped by imports, have been saved by the export trade. Rather surprisingly, the most eager buyers have been Belgians, to whom thousands of tons of second grade apples have been sold this year at a remunerative price—about double the price of cider apples. This little export business is as sur- prising as the export of cauliflower from Cornwall ; but it was, I think, prophesied by that intense believer in the English apples, and a general expert in fruit, Mr. Seabrook. On this subject I hear that very successful experiments in apple-growing have been made through the county authorities in Wiltshire. Science, it seems, has found new methods of dealing with subsoils of chalk and green sand.
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