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Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 3023, 18 August 1916, Page 1

ABOUT APPLE-GROWING. Apples may bo grown in almo.-t any'part of New Zealand, but anybody contemplating becoming a giowor of this fruit commercially v--.okl be well advised to select the district offering tho .maximum measure of natural conditions: to wit, plenty of sunshine, an, ample—but not 10-0 ample —rainfall, absence of lat-e frosts, strong winds, and humid comlitwus. The soil should be an easy loam *fl.th a deej), friable, clay sub-soil, it will 1)6 found that fhe cost of orod.i .-non as well as the quality of tbe fruit will be in proportion to the degree that these favourable conditions prevail. Somo sound advice is published in a book entitled "Applosl'or l-lxport," a gratuitous copy of which may be had ou application In the Tasman Orchards Co., Nelson.