A GOVERNMENT NURSERY.
It Might be well to set up a large Government nursery ; but the trees would be grown by nurserymen in sufficient numbers, if the Government announced that they would need so many trees at such and such a date, say, four years hence. Detailed schemes have been already • worked out, and if there is any desire to benefit agriculture (as farmers begin to doubt), the subject is worth the Ministry's attention. If trees could be provided at about cost price, and certain defaults in the landlord and tenant system made good, planting would probably become general in the counties of Salop, Monmouth, Worcester, Gloucester, Hereford, Devon, Somerset, Wiltshire, Kent, Norfolk, and perhaps Cambridge. The production of cider apples in France is immense—not less than an average of about sixty million hundredweight a year. It might be equally big in England to the great advantage of the farmer, especially the small farmer.
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