[126] The imports of fruit and vegetables, fresh and preserved, were £12,900,000 in 1909, and £14,193,000 in 1911, out of which fruit alone must have figured for at least £4,000,000. Potatoes alone, imported and retained for home consumption in the United Kingdom, figure in this item for the sums of from £6,908,550 in 1908 to £3,314,200 in 1910. The industry of dried fruit, and especially of dried vegetables, has not yet developed in this country, the result being that during the Boer War Britain paid a weekly tribute to Germany for dried vegetables, which attained many thousands of pounds every week. A nation cannot let its land be transformed into hunting reserves at the rate it is being done in this country without having to send the best and the most enterprising portion of its population overseas, and without relying for its daily food upon its neighbours and commercial rivals. [127] Thomas Smith, _French Gardening_, London (Utopia Press), 1909, 128 pp.; _Profitable Culture of Vegetables, for Market Gardeners, Small Holders, and Others_, London (Longmans, Green), 1911, 452 pp.; and a short summing up of the first of these works. [128] See Appendix T. CHAPTER VI. SMALL INDUSTRIES AND INDUSTRIAL VILLAGES. Industry and agriculture--The small industries--Different types--_Petty trades in Great Britain_: Sheffield, Leeds, Lake District, Birmingham--Statistical data--_Petty trades in France_: Weaving and various other trades--The Lyons region--Paris, emporium of petty trades--Results of the census of 1896.