Fruit-Growing Prospects at Hokianga.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1667, 25 March 1886, Page 2

Fruit-Growing Prospects at Hokianga.

' (UKITKD PRESS ASSOOIATjok.) ; I P Ohbistchcbch, Tuesday, j Mr Murphy, secretary of the Canterbury Agricultural and Pastoral Associatiou R a,nda)isq p£ [the^ Hqkianjia FruitGrpwing Company, has Veen interviewed by the Lyttelton. Times reporter on the subject of the fruit growing settlement' at Hokianga. He gives as his opiuicju that a. fine field exists there for. ( persons with'smtill knowledge of gardening arid / patience to work for a time for profitable returns. There is access by water all th rough the block, on : which could bo ' grown tomatoes, early cucumbers, straw* berrita, &c, to. supply the Southetfhlmar-.; kets, , .Mr Gt. B. Ferderli, who isic now*' working on 100 acres there, stages 'that' he lias 'planted ; apples, pears, , ' apricots,' quinces, pomegrauatea, fies," almtfnds, oranijes, Lisbon lemons,, bananas, and pirVe apples,, which' are dding very*' well.^ The'4oo vine cuttings that he* has planted have already attained a growl h p^fqurefee't.^nd his tobaGcoof yve 10avanna', Virginia, and Connecticut van »- ties has been admired by both Europeans and natives. The latter who grow *' the weed" m the district, consider it to be tho freshest' gtowth they have aeeji. The maize grows to perfection, and he expects' a' crop of 200 bushels *to ! the acije, while the water-melons and rock melons pan beeaßily;cultiyated , ; r . 1 g ;