FRUITGROWING.
The strawberry planting season in Auckland has just finished, and has been very successful. The weather conditions caused growers to plant earlier than last year and probably over 100,000 more plants have been put in. The recent mild weather has suited the plants admirably and they arc on whole progressing favorably. So suitable has the weather been that there will probably be no need to replace plants this year. Wet conditions prevailing in former seasons have often made it necessary to replant, the 1924 season being a particularly bad one. The principal growing areas in the vicinity of the city are Northcote, flirkdale and Mount lloskill. Owing to the land at Northcote becoming too valuable there has not been such a large area cultivated for strawberries this year. Last year consignments were sent to Wellington, but it is expected that this year Auckland will be able to consume all the fruit it grows.
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Dunstan Times, Issue 3333, 9 August 1926, Page 5
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154FRUITGROWING. Dunstan Times, Issue 3333, 9 August 1926, Page 5
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