Fruit Loss In Frost
(N.Z. Presi Astociation) DUNEDIN, October 14. Cromwell orchardists estimated at the weekend that this year’s fruit crop could be reduced by up to 25 per cent by Saturday night’s 16degree frost. It was the second year in succession in which a severe frost had attacked blossoms and young fruit at their most vulnerable stage. One of the areas worst hit contains more than 2000 trees opposite the junction of the Clutha and Kawarau Rivers. The entire stone-fruit crop was believed to have been destroyed. No pots were used on this property. Even orchardists who had oil pots burning lost a proportion of their crops. The blossom of hundreds of apple trees in the Lowburn area overnight turned from white to brown because of “frostbum."
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32119, 15 October 1969, Page 8
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128Fruit Loss In Frost Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32119, 15 October 1969, Page 8
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