COMMERCIAL ORCHARDS.
The total area •of commercial orchards in the Dominion, as taken by the Horticultural Division from the orchard registration cards for the year 1930-31 is 26,163 acres, comprising the following kinds of fruit: Apples, 17,855 acres; pears, 1744; quinces,, 198; peaches, 2214; plums, 1203; apricots, 885; nectarines, 359; cherries, 347; lemons, 956; oranges, 402 acres. Under the registration system "commercial orchard" is any orchard from which fruit is 'sold.or intended to be sold, irrespective of the value of such sales.
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 133, 3 December 1930, Page 14
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82COMMERCIAL ORCHARDS. Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 133, 3 December 1930, Page 14
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