Growers Urged to Curtail Planting Meyer Lemons
The commercial lemon-growing industry in New Zealand is faced with the need to decide on planning policy which will have a marked influence on its future. During the past decade plantings of' a new variety, the Meyer lemon (probably a sweet orange-lemon hybrid), have increased rapidly, whereas plantings of the standard lemon varieties have steadily decreased. v Because of the pronounced seasonal bearing habi't of the Meyer lemon, the Department of Agriculture predicts a very serious upset in the regularity of future supplies of lemons if this planting trend is continued over the next few years. The Department considers it evident from a survey of the position that further commercial planting of Meyer lemons should be discouraged and that future plantings should be confined entirely to standard lemons, particularly, which tend to produce a greater portion of their crop in summer than does the Lisbon lemon.
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Taupo Times, Volume I, Issue 16, 30 April 1952, Page 7
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153Growers Urged to Curtail Planting Meyer Lemons Taupo Times, Volume I, Issue 16, 30 April 1952, Page 7
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