. A regional geography of the world, with diagrams and entirely new maps . O>-«H< PU op^ p^o H•—« CO »5MQ .^ J Oil. U CO 64 THE BRITISH ISLES cereals do not require so much sun and will grow inpoorer soils. Root crops, such as turnips, swedes, andmangolds, are grown for winter food for cattle andsheep. Formerly it was the custom to kill cattle inautumn and to salt the flesh for winter use, a practicewhich resulted in skin diseases being form a most important article of human diet,especially in Ireland, where enormous quantities aregrown, although unfortunately Irish p
. A regional geography of the world, with diagrams and entirely new maps . O>-«H< PU op^ p^o H•—« CO »5MQ .^ J Oil. U CO 64 THE BRITISH ISLES cereals do not require so much sun and will grow inpoorer soils. Root crops, such as turnips, swedes, andmangolds, are grown for winter food for cattle andsheep. Formerly it was the custom to kill cattle inautumn and to salt the flesh for winter use, a practicewhich resulted in skin diseases being form a most important article of human diet,especially in Ireland, where enormous quantities aregrown, although unfortunately Irish potatoes are liableto disease. The best British potatoes are grown ineastern Scotland and eastern England. Of fruits,apples, pears, plums, cherries, etc., are all very largelygrown. The chief areas where these are produced ona large scale are on rich lands like those of the Weald,the lower valleys of the Severn and its tributaries, theWarwickshire Avon and the Wye, and the Carse ofGowrie, which lies between the Sidlaw Hills and theFirth of Tay. Early fruit, vegetables and flowers reachLondon and other centres from S.
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