PROPOSED WINTER SHOW OF FRUIT.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2145, 8 April 1886, Page 3

PROPOSED WINTER SHOW OF FRUIT.

TO THK KDITOK. Sib,— The idea suggested in your 'columns' a few days since* of holding an 1 appla and pear «how in Hamilton during the month /ot 'August is well worth the consideration «•'• of the Waikato Horticultural Society, and I ■hall be glad to hear that they are moving in the matter. A show at the end of ■ August would practically test the qualifications of many, »f, 'Quri so-called keeping varieties. By m'anyj growers it hat already been pretty conclusively proved that we have in cultivation tt large number of very second-rate varieties,! and, further, that during the months of! January, February, March and April the 1 price is very low — too low in fact to pay railway charges to Auckland and leave a, margin worth the trouble— %ni, in coprsjj^f time, as other orchards come into bearing 1 this state of affairs will be intensified.) Another point to which I would direct the attention of the Society is that of offering prizes including too many varieties ol culinary apples. Very few of the latter* are good for much at the end of April. The Society might well consider tmVqueetion,! as it cap be of much service to the public in discussiqg suoh matters, and in guiding intending cultivators in their selection of trees with the qualities of " keeping, good; croppers, and showy appearance."— Yours truly, «''":! Piako, April 7, 1886.

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