More Fruit A contribution to the popular subject of more
food has been issued in Germany by the " Vegetarians' Union" of Wiirttemberg, and it is quoted in Trees, the lively little journal of the Men of the Trees. Some of the ideas have long appealed to a great many persons, but nothing has been done in this regard in Great Britain. The first suggestion is " fruit and nut trees along the millions of miles of road verges " and the last: " Encourage- ment in the use of raw foods would in itself save about 80 per cent, on all fruits and vegetables consumed." Some of the suggestions are destruc- tive and puritan, such as the partial abolition of barley, because it is used for beer,. and the substitution of soya beans and the total abolition of pig-breeding. Well, we all grow not only more vegetarian, by chbice as well as compulsion, but perhaps more fruitarian ; and there is .a very strong movement for the planting of more fruit. The excessive emphasis on nuts vegetarians is doubtless due to the fact that an exclusively vegetarian diet is wont to be short of fats or oils, in which nuts are rich.
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