PROLIFIC APPLE TREES (?)
Sir —I have noticed several articles in your paper re Prolific Apple Trees and I wondered if you had heard of a South Island case. After the usual cropping the owner was asr tounded to see another forming, on only half the tree during frosty weather. The apples; were in perfect condition } and being unexpected were eaten in true appreciation- While puzzling over the the owner noticed on*, half of the trunk (the fruiting half) had been scorched by and he remembered suddenly a rubbish lire that had po-. curred some time before. Growers and others put the unusual happening down to the fact, that the tree had been fooled by the heat from the fire on oneside and was thoroughly convinced it was winter on the other. Growers with an eye for profiteering could I'm convinced play a blow lamp lovingly up and down the trunk to coup mother nature. Yours etc. " GROvVKR.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 8, Issue 76, 29 May 1945, Page 4
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157PROLIFIC APPLE TREES (?) Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 8, Issue 76, 29 May 1945, Page 4
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