The Pines.

Manawatu Herald, 17 March 1903, Page 2

The Pines.

Tho other day our representative paid a visit to Mr H. S Baker to have a glance at his fruit garden. Mr Baker was at home and gave us a hearty greeting; hs is evidently a man that has bis hands full, which we hope will in time secure his having his pockets full to. Mr Baker has a very nice orchard io strong bearing, his trees wellgrown and clean, and at present the sight is very pretty, and to tffie owner, a most satisfactory one. We have w intention to weary our readers with a capitulation of the names and kinds of apples, and it will have to suffice to say that many kinds are now ripe, there will be others later on, and are suitable fur cooking and eating. To those who want to know further de tails wn recommend them . visiting the Pines on purchase beat, and then a few interrogatories will draw the owner out upon everything information is desired.

Though. in all orchards apples loom the most important owing to the size and number of the trees, the Pines orchard possesses many other favourite fruits. There are plums, early and late, one to which our more particular attention was called wai called the Grand Duke, and is one of Mr Baker’s best late plums, and is a first-class cooker. The tree was so loaded that it needed propping up, and we were told it bore as a twoyear old. Peaches looked exceedingly tempting, and Mr Baker has a groat demand for his crop. The walnuts display a quantity of nuts, which in due time will bo gathered to swell the harvest.

Mr Baker has two long glass houses, running about 40!t long by 18it in width. These have both been erected'by Mr A. Speirs, one a year or two ago, and one this season. They are built of heart of totara, and were carried out to the' owner’s wishes. One is a young vinery, the vines being three'years old and bearing ’well. It was this house with the grapes therein that led some persons to steal, and some may imagine that Mr Baker is partly to blame by such temptation. It is worth while to note the grapes selected by Mr Baker, which are the Black Hamburg and the Gros Colma, both black, and the following white descriptions—Mrs Pierson, Muscatel, Alexandra, and Foster’s Seedling. The last glass bouse will probably be used for some of the vines now in the first house, but at present it is used wholly for growing tomatoes and a pretty show it is. There are 100 plants grown on the single vine principal on wires, and we are pleased to say that the enterprise has been so rewarded that up- to the present, which is not by any means the end of the season, Mr Baker’s sales have more than recouped him half the cost of the bouse.

Satan finds, so the old, old adage, is, some mischief still for idle hands to do. Commenting upon this one cumot imagine anything Satanic about Mr Halter, from this cause at any rate, as all about the orchard a e smelts of the Lang-tr-th hives full of bees, any hive of which, should you bo deeply interested in bees, Mr Balter is prepared to pen ami explain, This we were prepared to take for granted as a sting sometimes leads to a black eye, and the difficulty of satisfactorily explaining inw you got it is immense. We-learn*, however, that they were very profitable, and Mr Baker pointed out how much mare valuable the Italian hoe is to the ordinary honey bee. lie says that during the season you do well to get 60 pounds weight of honey from the ordinary hives, but he has taken from the Italian hives as much as 240 pounds weight! The care of these trifles are lightened by the possession of a number of Minorcas, Silver and White Wyandottes and Buff fowls, all of which are purebred. With an amount of pride pardonable in the owner, Mr Baker showed us a hand-, some chicken about five months old, which he assured us weighed sibs, being the result of a cross between a Houdan hen and a Silver Wyandotte rooster.

In the orchard we missed mentioning pears, of which there are a fine variety. We efpacfc there are many other fruits that were passed over in our bewildering multiplicity of matters to notice. Of course the better way for those interested is to go and sea what there is to be seen for themselves.

There had been evidently a fine show of dahlias, as we were told they were going off, but we noticed a brilliant bright yellow cactus dahlia which was remarkably handsome, and were surprised to learn that the present flowers were not half so big as the earlier ones.

The business carried on by Mr Baker ia a wonderfully useful exhibition of what can be grown in Foxton by those who give interest and attention to their work.

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