OUTLOOK FOR FRUIT.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 261, 2 October 1940, Page 4

OUTLOOK FOR FRUIT.

GOOD SPRING SEASON

Spring conditions have favoured the blossoming of fruit trees in the Manawatu, and on the earlier flowering varieties harbingers of a good season have been seen. One or two of the early liirht frosts caused a little damage to blossom on the plum trees, but this was not heavy enough to affect the crops to any material degree. Peach and nectarine trees came within the same category. Apple trees arc showing promise of reasonably good crops and the absence of high winds will bo appreciated bygrowers, who are now entering on a busy season in spraying their trees at the* fall of the petals to prevent attacks by f codling moth. Pear trees in the Manawatu, due perhaps to very poor crops last season, are now displaying almost phenomenal bloom. In many cases the trees arc over-blooming. The smaller fruits such as raspberries and currants are as yet only pushing out their little flower buds, but the season generally is said to be about a. fortnight ahead of the usual.