... reaches the public. This glimpse into 1949 was given me at the Royal Horticultural Hall, where the new blackberry has a stand to itself. Few of the blackberries on sale in shops have been picked from hedgerows. They are cultivated berries, very much sharper ...

... 2d. each; Canary and Jamaican bananas, lid. each; water melons,! from Gd. each; lemons, Id. and lid. ' each; cultivated blackberries, from ed. per lb.; greengages. 6d. to Bd. per lb.; plums—Czars and Prolifics, from 2d. per lb.; egg plums, from Id. per ...