NEW RESEARCH STATION
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Transfer of Fruit Trees
PALMERSTON N., Last Night. Favoured by the nature of the season^ a eonsignment of 2000 fruit trees has been sent forwayd to the new plant" research station at Auckland. The transfer of the trees is preparatory to removal, eventually, of the Plant Diseases Division of. he Plant Research Bureau to Auckland, where there are several- oificers of the division, including Dr. G. H. Cunningham, already in residencei. All - the commercial varieties of fruit were ineluded in the consignment sent north. English apples are represented by a number of experimental selections from the East Malling research station, Kent, which have been partially acclimatised here. Another group of apple trees comprises selections made locally during the past eight years with a view to developing new varieties or improving on those g'rown commercially. Stone fruits are represented mainly by peaches, nectarines, plums and apricots and walnuts, hazel nuts and a few experimental strawberries complete the consignment.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 142, 3 July 1937, Page 8
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