29 JUNE 1951, Page 18

COUNTRY LIFE

" CHERRY RIPE" will soon be the cry, for the orchards of Kent are filling up with the caravans of the nomad pickers. We hear bursts of hoarse song, arguments at midnight, barking of dogs and wailing of children. One camp, touched with moda-nity, has strung up electric lights in the trees above the vans and tents, producing the power from a lorry engine.