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Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 220, 13 June 1933, Page 13

BRITAIN'S ACRES OF GLASS. The fact that every tropical fruit and flower can be grown in Britain under glass is beginning to be appreciated and acted upon. Towns of glass are springing up. and experts estimate that there is a market, to the value of £30,000.000 open Io the enterpri.se. Tomatoes, cucumbers. grapes, mushrooms, early strawberries and raspberries are the chief fruits cultivated at present, but there is no reason why others should not be added to the list. During 1931 more tbau 18.000,0001 b of grapes were imported. _ The largest glasshouse area in Britain is in the Lea Valley, where 1500 acres are under glass. There are now more than 44 miles of greenhouses in the sheltered part of the South Downs near Worthing, and a new .enterprise has been formed to exploit the Worthing hothouse grape industry. The aim is to put 100 acres under glass, employ GOO men, mid get an output of a quarter of a million pounds of grapes a year. Other areas where hothouses have been erected are the Holland division of Lincolnshire and the marshland district of Norfolk. The figure of £3.000.000 is mentioned as the fresh capital recently put into this promising industry, which, incidentally, gives work to many men who are not gardeners.