FRUIT RIPENING EARLY
Effect Of Warm Weather SEASON MAY BE SHORT “The hot dry weather being experienced in Central Otago will mean that tne stone-fruit season will reach its height about three weeks ahead if schedule,” said a grower at Alexandra last night “If the present weather continues there will be a short, sharp season, ana some of the growers will nave a difficult time with so much fruit ripening at once.” Moorpark apricots, which usually do not appear on tne Christchurch market until about January 20, are now arriving. Purple King plums also made tneir first appearance on the market yesterday, three weeks ahead of scheoule.
An official of a Christchurch marketing firm said yesterday that persons who intended to bottle fruit should secure supplies as soon as possible as it appeared that the season would finish much sooner than usual. Supplies of peaches and apricots in a normal season were on the market until about tne end of March, but this year supplies would not last until the end of February. Good quantities of tohiatoes were being received, but if the hot weather continued there would be a shortage in about two weeks, he said. The present market price is from Is to Is 4d per lb.
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Press, Volume XCIII, Issue 27859, 6 January 1956, Page 8
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