FRUIT TRADE.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XXIV, 8 May 1928, Page 2

FRUIT TRADE.

CROPS IN BRITAIN. (Per Press Association— Copyright.) LONDON, May 5. In reference to the effects of the cold spell, the Ministry of Agriculture’s report states: “The blossoms of certain kinds of fruit in England and Wales ar« visib’y damaged, but the extent of the loss cannot be estimated with any degree of accuracy, but severe damage appears to have been strictly localised, and it is stated that it is unlikely that the cro-p prospects will be materially affected, except in the case of Vic'oria. Reports from the princ: pa-’ Continental fruit centres poinr to serious damage. The French cherry crop is expected to be only one-quarter of last year’s. Apricots promise only one-tenth of the normal yield. Spanish prospects are also bad, owing to frosts catching the trees in full blossom. The Murcia apricot crop is expected to be only 30 per cent, of normal.”