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STRAWBERRY GROWING

NOT A: COMMERCIAL SUCCESS IN ",',.,THE HTJTT.' ' 'As' the -result-'of-.an inquiry; made as, to the price of strawberries, in Now Sfealand and England made by a correspondent,: it lias been.ascertained that the price largely depends on the conditions prevailing . from, tho time tho berry begins to form and its maturity. The prices reached, in Auckland last week touohed 3s. per. lb., but that wai owing to the scarcity duo, to a very dry season and the big, Christmas mand. The price 'in the local market yesterday was Is. 2d. arid Is. 3d. per lb., which figure might easily be doubled to-day owing to the demand that always exists on New Year' 6 Evo. Mr. Thos. Waiigh, the Hutt irarserymnn, ivho keeps in close touch with fruit-growing conditions in the -Old Country, states that the average price of fair quality strawberries in England is never underfill, per lb. Sometimes in some of the provincial towns, near a strawberry-growing district, one may get them For 3d. a pint, mifc the quality may not be" '"'fair.average.". •• i As to'"lngo's" inquiry Mr. Waugh lias nover heard of strawberries being sold as low as 2d. per lb. in England. In speaking about strawberry-growing, ho said that a certain class of land was absolutely essential to tho successful culture of the berry. They might grow very well in one block and in'the j adjoining, block would not do well at all. Strawberries used to be grownsuccessfully by the Maoris in tho Hutt district twenty or thirty years'ago, but they have long been given up&as an uncommercial industry as far as anyone is concerned. Certain lands in "the north of Auckland seemed to be particularly well adapted for the culture of the strawberry'.

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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2346, 31 December 1914, Page 7

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STRAWBERRY GROWING Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2346, 31 December 1914, Page 7

STRAWBERRY GROWING Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2346, 31 December 1914, Page 7

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