APPLE GROWING.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1704, 28 February 1888, Page 2

APPLE GROWING.

to the editor. Sib,—l offered £1 at the Geraldine Floral and Horticultural Show on Thursday last for the 12 best late dessert apples and the 12 best late cooking apples, but I forgot to mention they were to be apples grown in 1887, my object being to see what sorts keep the best, with the idea of knowing for certain those that toill stand the voyage to England, It is no use picking an apple noio off a tree to know even for certain what kind it is. We want our minds educated to know at once what is the name of an apple if we see it and its special qualities. lam advised to continue my prize for next year, and to limit the apples of each kind to six, I write these few remarks so as to enable the public to lay by a few apples of each kind, to see for themselves which will keep the longest. Growing apples for sale here does not pay, if you grow the early sorts, you only get from Id to per lb at the outside, whereas if you have good keeping apples you will obtain even here 6d per lb for them, or 4d per lb readily, late in the season ,

I feel certain that it will pay weil to grow the large hard keeping pears to send to England. A friend of mine now staying with me says that before he left England he could not buy pears in Co vent Garden, in London, under 30a a dozen , and very large pears very late in the season are ticketed in the shop windows in Coveut Garden at 18 (guineas a dozen. - 'then pears are not as a rule sold at this price, but are hired for the night , and if one or more is lost, or damaged, at that rate the borrower or hirer has to pay. I think there is a great future for us all in New Zealand for apple and pear growing.

C. G. Tripp, Orari Gorge, Woodbury, 27th February, 1888.

A COMPLAINT. TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —Having paid for admission to the Flower Show on Thursday evening last, and having been there for a few minutes, I had occasion to go outside. When I returned I was refused admission without paying a second time, and not complying with such demand the door keeper sent for the local police to take me in charge. If such are the rules of the Society I should advise them to alter them if they want the public to patronise them. Hoping you will publish the above lines, and oblige John Fifield. Geraldine, Feb. 25tb, 1888.