New Zealand Horticulture.
The northern districts of this Colony have long been celebrated as peculiarly adapted for the production, in the highest state of perfection, of most kinds of English Fruit, and this week we have had an ocular demonstration of the fact. Two apples, grown in the orchard of G. F. Russell, Esq., of Hokianga, are now in our possession, one of them measures in circumference Mi inch., and weighs 181 ounces; the other measures 14 inches, and weighs 17 ounces ; the agregate weight of the two is 23) 3§ ounces. These specimens have a splendid appearance, and most delicious aroma, and prove iucontestibly the admirable capabilities of our soil and climate.
We have been furnished with a copy of a memorial addressed by a few of the most influential and public spirited colonists, to tho Secretary of State for the Colonies ; "R'lnch will be found printed in another column. We see nothing objectionable in the memorial, but on the contrary, think that it is both timely and necessary. '
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Daily Southern Cross, Volume 3, Issue 142, 11 March 1848, Page 3
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