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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1708, 27 March 1913, Page 4

Encour,ifling remarks concerning Ho returns to uo secured from 'the fruit-grow-ing industry wore made by tho president of the New Zealand Association of Nurserymen (Mr. A. M'Donald) nt the Anci:lan(j Copfprcnec. He mentioned tho enso of an ptago grower who secured Inst year ii gross return of JJ2OOO from "a fruit' farm of 12 aoyes. "X dpn't'suppose wo could give a parallel caso in .the north," tho speaker admitted, "biij; i£ ; just as \ypll sometimes to remember t!\o, 'possibilities of the industry. With the opening of the Panama Canal, t«V I am informed bv a gentleman \vell niialified to Umt excellent 'markets in tho Eastern 'States of Amor ion will bo thrown open to us." flo understood that the markets would bo best for pe'arsi and that tha' varieties most likely to sell well were Dovenno do Cornice, Bourre'D. A. Oou. and Winter Trelis, which it was estimated "would, real? ise from 20s. to 255. a caso.