Empire-Grown Fruit Show.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7838, 2 June 1905, Page 2

Empire-Grown Fruit Show.

Mr Chamberlain's idea of a homogeneous Empire, able to produce nil its wants to satisfy its needs, found illustration in a small but representative exhibition of Colonial-grown fruit mid other indigenous products which was held recently in Westminster, under the auspices of Uie Hoynl Horticultural Society. The gold medal was taken by Messrs James Phillip and Co., West India merchants, who were run close by Messrs V. Pink, of Portsmouth, und this firm was followed by the Royal! Mail S.S. Company. Cape fruit was included in' the display, the Cupe Orchard Company leading. The Chartered Company, with a non-eonipeli-tive exhibit, showed the agricultural possibilities of Hhodesia in raising grain, cotton, rubber, the liner (nullifies of tobacc-o leaf. und<a few varieties of fruit. The collections included pineapples, bananas, mangoes, grain's, onuses, limes, lemons, shaddocks, desert and cooking apples, pears, peaches, plums, melons, tomatoes, yams, sweet potatoes, tinned and bottled fruits and' jams, all of which can be shipued and sold in the home market in the hard winter months. There was a small exhibit from Nova Scotia ot excellent quality.