THE FRUIT CROP.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume L, Issue 16320, 2 January 1924, Page 5

THE FRUIT CROP.

AFFECTED BY WEATHER, CONDITIONS; / Discussing the fruit, crop that is at present being harvested, and the apple crop that- is now coining forward, Mr. Davcy, Ipeal Government Orchard Instructor, said that on the whole, the crops had been fair. There wore good crops of nectarines about, ready, and fair crops of apricots, free from brown rot, were now being harvested. There weve fair crops of peaches biting harvested, and those too, were remarkably free from brown rot. Only moderate/ crops of all classes -of plums . were being harvested. There were, good crops of pears coining forward, the black spot showing np in some trees, but. I he: infection was no worse, than usual. . The cherry, crop was now over, aa was also the gooseberry crop, which had been particularly heavy this year. Raspberries were not, grown here commercially, but very good crops of loganberries were now being picked. Therci was a good setting q[ fruit) now apparent on Ihe lemon and orange trees, the more matured trees especially bearing every sign of producing heavy crops.. The .strawberry crop was now ..practically over, the dry conditions having made for a very short season. The glassgrown tomato crop was now nearly over, and it appeared that there was a good deal of disease in the outdoor crop now ripening. The prnvaling dry spell, together with the heavy westerly winds, had caused a heavy drop of apples, nnd bad aiso tended towards aggravating the cotTlin moth infection.