CLIMATIC CHANGES AND THE FRUIT CROP.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1982, 21 March 1885, Page 2

CLIMATIC CHANGES AND THE FRUIT CROP.

TO THE LIJirOK. Sin,— Many letteii ha\e, at vanous times, .i|>peaied in jcmr columns rofuirnif,' to tlio blight, which has destioyed all, or neatly .ill, our pe.ich tree--, and us numerous have been tlio different causes assigned fur it. I, in common with other-., na\o lost my poach tiee*., but I do not think any human efforts will restore the in, unions, iudocd, wo can restiain tlio clim.itu horn changing', whicli it ni.^t undoubtedly is doing. Look at thn number of plants and fiuits that ci>nld bo giown <-o c.isily a few ye.m ugo, and now cannot be crown without great trouble, and in some cases not at all. Wh.it h.is become of the grapes, melons and othoi -*üb»tiopic.il fruits, which were in such abundance a few years back ? If the author of Old New Zealand landed now ho would hnd no "eater of melons." And now tlio well-known firewood tree, the taw a, has received a fatal blast, and will in a few years be as rare as the peach. At the beginning of last Hpiingtho towns were all .ili\o.uxJ quite tureen, and in a week tlio le.i\ c< had all turned red, and the trees are now practically deud. This is the case in tho Waipa dicttict, and, as far as I can a-eertain, is bo elsewhere. Who will nay that tlio climate in not changing? Oh! (ituy ; there iti another reason, perhapH. The white man, whoao presence is ho fatal to the aboriginal, is now extending his baleful influence to the indigenous forest trees ! — I am, &c, Wh vtawhat \ Farm Kit.

Nevi'R Rutiikn — It is said that one out of ever} four real invalid"! who go to toreign countries to recover health never return, exrrp. as a corpse. Ihe undertakers, next to the hotelkrepers, haM- the most profitable business. I his ixcessnc mort.ilitv may bo prevented, and patients *avrd and cured under the tare of friends and loved ones at home, if they will but mr American Co.'s Hop Hitters in times Read. Mr J. S. Huckland will sell at the Cambridge Yards on Ihursda) next, prime f.it ( attle, cjuut dairy lows, steers, store ewes, Lincoln rams, fit sh<'<|>, be. About tin* first week in April, h« will tell 1000 cond crcm-bred ewes, and about two weeks later, JOOQ firit-class m«rißo wvthirn from Napier.