FRUIT SEASON IN CANTERBURY

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22514, 23 September 1938, Page 6

FRUIT SEASON IN CANTERBURY

♦ ' “PROSPECTS FOR HEAVY CROPS” VIEWS- OF GOVERNMENT ORCHARD INSTRUCTOR “At the present time there is every prospect of just as heavy a crop of apples and pears and a heavier crop of stone fruit, comprising peaches, nectarines, apricots, plums, and cherries, this season when compared with last,” said Mr B. G. Goodwin, orchard instructor for the Department of Agriculture. commenting last evening on the coming fruit season in Canterbury. Mr Goodwin said that he had arrived at this conclusion after having made inspections of the stone fruit orchards in the valleys at Heathcote and Governor’s Bay. and apple and pear orchards at Loburn, Papanui. Belfast, Ouruhia, and Rangiora. The weather had so far been good for fruit trees, and orcbardists were well on with their spraying work, the majority having made their first application of spray for the control of black spot, he said. The only danger which he considered could possibly spoil the crop was frost in late October and early November,

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