HIGH-PRICED PEACHES
“AMATEURS” BIG PROFITS LONDON, August 14. “Amateur gardeners” are making big money from the sale of peaches, prices for which in the West End range from 6/6 to 8/6 a peach. A man who, before the war, had only grown peaches for home consumption, realising there was money to be made from his 60 trees along an old garden wall, now shows, after four years, a profit of £950. The reason for the shortage of peaches is that there is no import from Mediterranean countries, which, before the war, supplied the bulk of Britain’s peaches. The main buyers are not the general public; they are usually representatives of the high-class hotels, who buy by the case an’d an occasional individual who selects one peach to take away to some hospital bedside. The rest of the public lingers outside the windows in which' the peaches lie in state in “nests” lined with cotton-wool to prevent damage to their precious skins. ‘
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Greymouth Evening Star, 17 September 1945, Page 6
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161HIGH-PRICED PEACHES Greymouth Evening Star, 17 September 1945, Page 6
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