Apple Growing: in England.

Te Aroha News, Volume XVI, Issue 22218, 27 March 1900, Page 2

Apple Growing: in England.

As showing the amount of work whichi English fruit growers put into thoirorchards we quote from an essay niu “Profitable Apple Culture,”' By Mr Edward Miller, a successful horticulturist in England; is wor-h referring to* He states that although" a million? pounds sterling annually goes out ->f England for apples; ehoico English apples well maintain thoirprice. Cox’S:. Orange Pippins fetched Iss to 21s petbushel,, the retail price being 2d and 3d eadli. The system of growing apple* trees on the cordon system is:Btr recommended the fruit being speciallyfi'ne; realising in boxes of dozen fruits, each, 2s and 3s per bos. The tries, referred to were planted extre’m >lyclose—the rows were about 4ft apart, and the trees only 18in one from tl e? _ other in the rons—they boro very* heavily. The result, of course, was thatcare had to be taken to replace the trees-, ae they wore themselves nut. The-cost per'ac: e of growing apples as estimated in the paper will Be interesting to manyof our New Zealand fruit grower 8.. Rent of land £5 ; hoeing five timos during summer, say at 10s, £2 1.0s;-. digging same at 6d per rod,. £4; manuring (20 loads of dung), £5"-;.- . whooling same into plantation, £2 ;■ cost of pruning, £3 ;cost of insecticides; and applying them, £5 ; cost of gathering fruit and packing £10;: cartage to rail, freight, and commission, £lO ;• total, £46 10s. This-sum is approximate to-the-cost of growing a crop which at the low fixure of 4s a bushel wonld realise £B7". The paper does-not state the kind" op .stock the-., apples were worked" upon, but pror bably the Paradice.,