AN EXPERIMENT ESTATE.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 18 April 1910, Page 4

AN EXPERIMENT ESTATE.

SriCCESSFUL CI ROSSIXG. Expe i iments sire conducted on many fruit growing estates in Levin, and month l»v month the country is appreciating the importance of pomology as a. national asset. "T cannot," said Mr Henry Newport, of the Levin Nursery, "und.erstanid why the industry is not put upon a methodical footing in New Zealand. "We have splendid opportunities for growing everything from an acorn to the vine or maize." This opinion- is held by many other people interested in fruit culture, lmt unfortunately, as | show, a good number of persons fall to take the opportunities at their disposal. Mr Newport is not one of these. His rich plot of soil is yielding a rich harvest, whether looked at from a floricultural or horticultural point of view. While he makes a speciality of apples, he, cultivates pears, peaches, plums a.nd oilier articles for the table. It wns_ while reading through Hocrg's Fruit Manual about twenty-five years ago he noticed that at the beginning of tho last century a ponvologist became alarmed lest' the best variety of. apples should be lost, so