Pip Fruit Crop.
“A recent survey of apple and pear orchards in Canterbury disclosed that the crop should come up to original _ estimates made by the Horticulture Division earlier in the season,” stated Mr. A. R. Grainger, Christchurch orchard instructor of the Department of . Agriculture, last week. He added that at one stage the continued dry weather made it look as though the fruit would be sniall, ba most growers had thinned (heir apples judiciously, ami. now (hut good rains hat; fallen, tlie question of fruit failing to size up would not cause so much anxiety. Another factor in the ease of some varieties was that the"hetting was not heavy, particularly with Delicious and Jonaihans.
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 125, 22 February 1944, Page 5
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115Pip Fruit Crop. Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 125, 22 February 1944, Page 5
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