WHERE LAND IS DEAR.
Figures of the lamentably low price of land in England have been freely quoted here and elsewhere. It is the more refreshing to be able to report some high and heightening prices. Fruitland in Kent has lately been sold at £100 per acre, which may be set against East Anglian land sold at 30s. an acre, Wiltshire land at PA and Huntingdonshire at about the same. The reason for this advance in the price of fruitland is plain and simple. There is a dearth of English fruit, a very great dearth of certain varieties. Good evidence of this—if evidence is needed—is to be found in that really excellent trade paper, The Canning Trade Journal (as one might say, The New Anti-Jacobin), to which Mr. G. W. Cadbury sent this special message ; "there is not sufficient high grade fruit to meet the needs of the factories." And these factories are increasing. A very large and most scientific factory, for example, will be opened this spring at Kings Lynn.
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