THIS SEASON'S FRUIT CROPS.
A DEPARTMENTAL STATEMENT. '.Tie' Department of Agriculture has received particulars of tho state'of tho fruit crops-throughout tho-Dominion this seaeon. -';. '.-'.:' • , •\ln North-Auckland, while peaches are heaTy,. plums.arc light, and apples and pears are below tho average. In South Auckland pears are lighter than usual, but the crops aro othorwiso good. In tho Wairarapa thero ( nro light crops of all kinds. On tho Hhstings flats all the fruit was destroyed by the October frcjst. -Apples and pears are moderate to good in Hawko's Bay, plums and apricots »Te' scarce, 'and peaches and nectarines are.below, tho average. ,-. I'eachM, apricots,'and nectarines' aro heavy in Nelson,. apples and pears' are good,' but raspberrios aro poor. There are good average crops of apples, , pear?, and peaches in the Marlborough and Sounds district. Plums are light. The apricot, crops. were heavy, but are all don». > In Canterbury, apples, pears, plums, and are light. -There• are crops,of apricots and poaches." There are fair crops of tho small fruit. Otago and..Southland..has 'light..crops of apples aud plums. Apricots/pears, and peaches aro good,
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1048, 10 February 1911, Page 8
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176THIS SEASON'S FRUIT CROPS. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1048, 10 February 1911, Page 8
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