CANTERBURY FRUIT CROPS.

Press, Volume LVI, Issue 16727, 9 January 1920, Page 3

CANTERBURY FRUIT CROPS.

i Tlie following axe the reports of the Agrij cultural Department's inspectors on tlie fruit crops in Canterbury at tho end of

Dccerabcr last: — ! Chrisichurch and Suburbs.--Applos: Very ' heavy crop. Mildew and black spot very prevalent. A frost early in tho month did a littlo damage. Apricots, pcivchcs, and nectarines: Very light, in. many cases showing: a nil return. Cherries: Good. Gooseberries : Fair. Nectarinos and pcachos: Poor. Tear*: Host varieties very light crop. Easter Buerxo, Vicars, L'lnconnue, and a few other varieties very fair crop. Other varieties from light crops -to nil. Spot bud. PhtiM: Light. Plums (Japanese): Very light. European phiros are mostly ft very light crop. Japanese plums arc practically nil. The frost and an epidemic of plum pocket wiped this crop out. StrawlxMTies: Fair. Tomatoes: Hothouse, good. Outside tomatoes will ho late, as they wore , mostly cut back by frost. {Signed) C. Ber- ! ridge. | South Canterbury.—Apples: Excellent. ApI ricots: Fair. Cherries: Picking weL'. Gooseberries: Good crop. Kec Urines: ! Light. Peaches:- Light. Pears: Heavy i crop. Plums and Japanese plums: Heavy, i Raspberries: Medium to good. Strawberries : Fair. Tomatoes: Indoor, looking well; outside, backward. Tho. apple crop promises to be a TecorJ one, and up to tho present, where T*asonablo euro has been given, black spot is well "under control. Cox cranio and Jonathan are light. All kinds of weather have been experienced during the month, tho latter days being very hot. (Signed) I. W. Hclmeing.