DEMAND FOR APPLE TREES.

Press, Volume L, Issue 14987, 6 June 1914, Page 3

DEMAND FOR APPLE TREES.

Nurserymen throughout the Dominion report a very strong demand for apple trees, particularly somo kinds which are suitable for export purposes. This demand will exceed the supply, and many prospective planters will have to delay the work for the season or plant others, which aro not so much in favour with the oversea buyers. Jonathan apples particularly aro in great dernaud. and this variety will be sot out by tens of thousands in somo of tho fruit-growing centres. Stunner Pippin is also being largely planted, this, however, for growing for local use. Rome Beauty aud Lord Wolseley are also being freely planted for market purposes. This extensive planting on commercial linos has quite revolutionised the nurseryman's outlook, and forced him to rearrange his principle of stock raising. Thoso who cater for commercial orchards are now confining their energies to a few lines, and thus reducing the amount of detail and worry attached to a nursery which grows trees and plants for tho demands of tho general public. For tho next few years orchard planting will be followed on extensive lines. At the present timo the prospects are very favourable,- and should tho industry become permanently profitable it will mean a great increase of population in many districts, which at the present timo are but thinly peopled. Ono of tho advantages of this industry is that many,, men who are getting up in years and not able to stand the strain of life in competition with their fellows, may make a comfortable living under the healthiest conditions. Here, however, there is no room for the work-shirker, or the dull-head. Successful fruitgrowing depends on industry and intelligence. Given these, success may confidently bo expected.