and Fruit Apples are going to be scarce and dear,
and as usual the towns- as, quite naturally, will probably wonder why. By this time presumably knows all about the late spring frosts and the saster to fruit blossom, but he probably knows little or nothing about what is happening at the country fruit-sales. Soft-fruit ales, mainly of plums and cherries, are held earlier in the summer; hard-fruit sales, meaning mostly apples, are almost over r early August. The townsman will no longer wonder why his pples are expensive when he reads the following prices. rchards are bought as they stand, and these prices for Kent and Sussex orchards were recorded although, in many cases, crops were short. At Tenterden—surely in the first six most charming small towns of England, by the way-3 acres brought L400; not ar away, zo acres brought £2,075 ; farther across the Weald, owards Sussex, 5 acres brought £61o. At a sale in Sussex the rites per acre were almost doubled. Two acres of apples made 400 ; 7 acres made L1,175; and finally five acres made £1,275, r an average of £255 an acre. The day's total at this sale alone as L13,000, and even among the lighter crops the average was vet £roo an acre.
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