. Journal of the Bath and West and Southern Counties Society . Fig. 11.—Tomato Plants Treated with Electric Light. (33) III.—FRUIT-GROWING LESSONS FROM EXPERIENCE. By William E. Bear. Although the experience of one fruit-grower is not in all respectsnecessarily a safe guide for another—any more than the resultsof manurial applications on one class of soil are bound to be thesame on land of different character—yet the lessons derived fromsuch experience may apply where circumstances are similar tothose under which it was obtained. Moreover, there are somelessons which, so far as they are based
. Journal of the Bath and West and Southern Counties Society . Fig. 11.—Tomato Plants Treated with Electric Light. (33) III.—FRUIT-GROWING LESSONS FROM EXPERIENCE. By William E. Bear. Although the experience of one fruit-grower is not in all respectsnecessarily a safe guide for another—any more than the resultsof manurial applications on one class of soil are bound to be thesame on land of different character—yet the lessons derived fromsuch experience may apply where circumstances are similar tothose under which it was obtained. Moreover, there are somelessons which, so far as they are based upon careful and sustainedobservation, are of general application, because they have to dowith general principles, and are not affected by differences of soil orclimate. The Choice of Land. A deduction of a general character, whether well based or not,relates to the choice of land for fruit-growing. It is true that aman who intends to commence fruit-growing has very oftenpractically no choice of land beyond the selection of one field oranother on the
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