1. Mary Lowther, a fruiterer who runs a shop in Skinnergate.

2. The fruiterer picked over a stock of plums and removed the overripe ones.

3. The fruiterer jam - packed the basket with all kinds of fruit.

4. Many years ago several small businesses flourished, besides farming; a cobbler, fishmonger, fruiterer, village store and butcher.

5. Every Friday five crates of oranges and lemons arrived from a fruiterer in New York—every Monday these same oranges and lemons left his back door in a pyramid of pulpless halves.

6. And the gardener went to town and asked the fruiterer where he got these highly prized apples and pears.