ORCHARD PROSPECTS

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 11, 14 January 1933, Page 14

ORCHARD PROSPECTS

APPLES FOR EXPORT

The Director of the Horticulture Division has received' reports regarding orchard conditions .as at the end of December, 1932.. . Auckland. —There has been considerable dropping of apples Since last report. Lemons promising very good. Oranges showing fair promise. Peaches average to good crop. Pears light to average crop. Plums iriedium. to good. Plums (Japanese) medium to heavy. Thames.—Light to medium crop of apples. Apricots medium to heavy crop. Lemons, light summer crop. Poorman oranges, heavy setting. Hamilton.—Average apple crops generally. • Gisborne.—Apple crop extremely patchy on all of the leading varieties, and generally is very light. Hastings.—Apple crop irregular on all varieties. District output will be a little below last, year's. Peaches, light to average. Pears, good average crop. Walnuts, average crop. Wanganui.—Apples light to average. Plums, light. Plums (Japanese), average. Palmerston North.—Apples, a light crop. Apricots, peaches, plums, and tomatoes, heavy crops. Nelson.—Apple crop developing well and sizing up. Apricots, nectarines, peaches, plums, and raspberries, good crops. Pears, fair to good. Tomatoes, good crop indoors; outside plants looking well, showing good crops. Nelson Central.—Fair to good crops of apples developing and size of fruit generally^ large. Pears, good to heavy- crops promising. Tomatoes, normal crop. Motueka.—Apples, trees looking well, fruit growing well; probably larger than usual owing to lighter crops. Apricots, average crop. Nectarines, good. Peaches, very good. Pears, crops very good. Plums, fairly good. Raspberries, fair average crops._ Tomatoes, outside looking well. Christchurch.—Average crops of - apples set, with the exception of Lord Wolseley, which are light. Apricots and peaches, light crops. Cherries, approximately halfcrop. Gooseberries, medium tof heavy crops. Nectarines, pears, plums, and walnuts, average. Raspberries, medium. Tomatoes, .indoor, average crop and outsidegrown, indications for medium to lieht crop. ' . Dunedin.—Crops* of apples generally heavy m most varieties, but heavy drop m Coxs orange pippin. Apricots and plums, heavy crops. Cherries, good crops. Uoosebemes and walnuts, average. Nectarines and peaches, very heavy. Pears slightly better than average, but Nelis short crop and generally heavy drop. Raspberries, good crops. Strawberries, heavy crops reduced by drying winds. Tomatoes, normal. Alexandra.—Apples are generally heavy. Apricots, below ,'average. Cherries, average. Nectarines, peaches, and walnuts, heavy. Pears and plums, patchy. Tomatoes, good prospects.