Fruit Prospects.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 233, 17 December 1887, Page 2

Fruit Prospects.

Attics.-- Whcievor I have visited orchards in this di&tuct (Drury) the ciop is good, - aid if wo 'escape heavy 1 north-east gales when the fruit is fully grown I expect to Lear of * fiuit of \ cry supeiior quality this coming season. Chzrj-ws aro set vci'y thicklj"' ; the ' ; Cviily sorts aie swollen to a good she, and I:j many instances ate commencing to colour. The Mouello clas3 are not so' tonvtud as the Pukes, Geans, and r.iggcicvn'f, but they are thickly set. (lootoili.ir'n'.i - Th,e Lancashire prize ports ■ are of great size, owing to the cool, s>howeiy weather that iii prevalent now. The oioi io luge, and by twinning now for market the smaller ciiej3 left will s w ell to aJ great size. .-_ ' ~ Ptcna — The ciop in every direction is in and. I ha\ c heaid tv. oor thiee say their - ttee.s are not as thiokly covered as they were ' last year, but on examination I think they are. J li;l\g commenced to thin my crop of i thi-^ luaoious fruit ; clusters of 5 or 6 F re duce to 2 or 3 whenever I can " get at 'em, handy.'' 1 like to do a little thinning afc this oaily peiiod, as I find that if done lateftlio^e left on a>e more easily shaken off because the stalk if? unsupported on the fide from -which thb.'-c lemovecl ha^ c been takenThis rcmaik av ill appl^ to apples also. I'linn^ pi ojnit>e ell. The cop &et is re ' mai kablc, and as the weather is just the thing, those w lio like plums to preserve mny expecfc to lja\ c a libeial supply. Remember sweetest sotts take least sugar. ' ' Pturjinb' and Xecf urines, j-o far as the tioes g"o, "are veiy fair. ■ I notice a good o> op where the tree? liave survived the disease. . JEarly ilivers and r.'few other sorts " arc best, but theio are scarcely 5 percent of trees compared with ton 3 cars ago. Persimmons aro only just coming to the fi out , amongst hnrdy. fruit- tree?. What few 1 know of aro showing' blossom freely 1 ' qn the small twiggy ■ i\Vo expeeb l to fruit {several*. boi ls thi3 'year, judging - from appearances < . Quinces — I never faw 'the like.! On ; young and old tree 3 the fruit is set -^ery I'thickly, and as Me have several- popu-;^ lar sorts coveied in the ?arae manner I may' justly conclude that th& season for this*'*fruit will be a good one. ' ' 3lullar^. — These peculiar 'fruit trees ai*e- ~ always late coming into bloom, but they are all wide-awake and eyes open now, and 1 from what I can see we shall have a famous j crop. : ' ,"■ Walnuts, Filberts, and Ohe&Ymtte. — Trees' 1 are' few and faiv between in 'this locality, but, 1 ' thd few there ai-e, are looking well. • : , Hayberriex, Btrdiclwrhk y and' Currailtb 1l are not grown in -this .district" tor sale^ MC though one is surprised that the industry,^ "Small Fruit Culturej*' is nofc pUrsued ,here, pjarticularly as cattle-raising, butter- 1 making, etc. '.etc. ,; i^ at so low an 'ebb, and' - considering also "the many small holdings' just Suited to this most profitable mode o£' } market frait farming*. ■— J. M^Vo; Drury. ' '