The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects . 3 Cocoa ... lb. 1,418,631 24,523,42S CoBco ... ,, 26,394,060 27,780,592 Tea 31,S72,516 206,068,791 Sugar ... cwt. 4,355,240 30,547,540 Cjrn ... qr. 635/32 1142,119,407 „ Wheat-meal aud otherkiuds cwt. 40,331 21,661,320 Fruit, dried „ 316,480 1,745,724 „ Lemonsvalue and Oranges £ 2,201 1,309,675 Metals, iron bars, &c. tons 13,470 178,124 ,, copper, &c. ... cwt. 1,000,469 Seeds: Flax, Linseed, Rape bush. 4,352,400 22,173,072 ,, Clover cwt. 124,967 405,071 Silk, raw and manufactured 4,996,4
The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects . 3 Cocoa ... lb. 1,418,631 24,523,42S CoBco ... ,, 26,394,060 27,780,592 Tea 31,S72,516 206,068,791 Sugar ... cwt. 4,355,240 30,547,540 Cjrn ... qr. 635/32 1142,119,407 „ Wheat-meal aud otherkiuds cwt. 40,331 21,661,320 Fruit, dried „ 316,480 1,745,724 „ Lemonsvalue and Oranges £ 2,201 1,309,675 Metals, iron bars, &c. tons 13,470 178,124 ,, copper, &c. ... cwt. 1,000,469 Seeds: Flax, Linseed, Rape bush. 4,352,400 22,173,072 ,, Clover cwt. 124,967 405,071 Silk, raw and manufactured 4,996,455134 714 j see values1 1896 Cotton-wool lb. ,6S0 1,754,S90,256 Wool, sheep o r Iambs 43,148,297 713,579,173 Spirits ... gall. 4,416,805 S,174,290 Wines ... „ 6,503,182 15,861,251 lb. 22,649,388 69,593,012 Animals, living (for food)...(A.) Articles of food and driukduty free Tobacco—dutiable , Metals Chemicals, dye stuffs, and tan ning substances ... Oils Raw materials for textile manu. Manufactured articles (A.) Miscellaneous articles (B.) Parcel Post. There are enough items and figures tosatisfy most folks in the above attempt atprecision. A look down the items columnwill show in a moment how great is the differ-ence between then and now. Our friends willperceive that, with the exception of Orangesand-Lemons, no other fresh fruit is , or, rather, in 1896, we imported forhome consumption, fruit to the value of£2,170,394. We grow the counterpart of allat home; but what is imported, exceptingCanadian, is what may be termed earlyfruit. Of vegetables of all the sortsgrown at home, we imported duringtwelve months to the extent of £2,874, these figures there is something reallymagnificent, looking at the totals. Now take * Great hundreds. t Now given in cwts., and exclusive of Beaus and Supplement to the Gardeners1 Chronicle, June 19, 1897.
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