LEMON CULTURE

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 9, Issue 551, 23 July 1920, Page 4

LEMON CULTURE

AT IMAUKU. A NEW INDUSTRY, ("'limes" Correspondent.)

Messrs. Hill Bros., who are carrying on probably the most up-to-date methods of farming in the district, have just taken up quite a new departure in agriculture, by planting a four-acre orchard of lemon trees. This specialty is under charge of Mr. E. Hill, who made a special trip to Tauranga to view the Government farm in that area, and to gather all the latest methods and j varieties which ewe there proving so j successful. ' The plantation at Ti Ti is on the sunny slopes of the old historical U TI battlefield, where Stirling- episodes took place during the Maori War in 1863. Mr. Hill expects to start • about 800 trees, 200 to the acre, I spaced about 20ft apart. The trees, I which have proved most successful i in Tauranga, are the Eureka, and I these are being- selected by Mr. Hill i as being most likely to suit the 1 Mauku soil. j We wish Mr. Hill every success in ; this - new venture.