Many amateurs, like yourself, have been disappointed most grievously by the pecuniary results of their fruit-growing. To make money by such a pursuit, requires great skill in the management of such houses as you have, and at this moment there are far too many before you in the market; and when salesmen have a glut of such perishable produce, great sacrifices have to be made, and we expect amateurs get their full share of them. In these circumstances, we advise you to expect little more than to cover the cost of your coal, and you will not be disappointed. The prices in the periodicals that report the markets are the retail ones - a very different figure, as a matter of course, compared with your experience of Covent Garden prices.