OTAHUHU FRUITGROWERS ASSOCIATION.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 9492, 23 April 1894, Page 3

OTAHUHU FRUITGROWERS ASSOCIATION.

A meeting of the above association was held on Wednesday evening. Mr. J. Foster in the chair. Mr. T. Lippiatt, the secretary, read a good deal of correspondence. The secretary stated that Mr. Palmer, the wellknown florist and nurseryman, had kindly consented to read a paper at a future meeting. The report from the fruitgrowers present) showed that the fruit crop of the past season had proved a disgusting failure, the codlin moth appeared to revel in Paris green and apples on the trees and in the storeroom turned rotten. The bad season was attributed by some to climatic changes and the excessive wet in the spring and early summer. . One fruitgrower stated that lemon trees paid him better than any other crop this season. He found that the' best way to prevent the "foot" or "collar" rot was to gradually prune the lower branches, so that eventually no branches were left on the tree less than three feet from the ground ; the circulation of air and sunshine were the best preventatives of collar rob and other fungoid diseases. ' Much regret was expressed at the untimely death of Mr. Robert Garrett, who was one of the most useful and intelligent members of the association. Mr. G. B. Hutton and the secretary were ap pointed delegates to attend the May Con ference of the Fruitgrowers' Union.