By the Suez mail we have received periodicals to date 1st November. The reports of the fruit crops, says the Gardeners' Chronicle have told their sad tale of a scanty harvest of ...
Article : 1,657 wordsTHE KITCHEN GARDEN.--The weather continues to be all that need be desired, both for the progress of vegetation and the raising of crops. Take care to have a good stock of young plants of ...
Article : 975 wordsDAYLESFORD.--Apple : yield, average ; area, medium, with increase ; diseases, none at present. Apricot: yield, below average ; area, decreasing. Cherry: yield, below average; area, ...
Article : 224 wordsThe garden of Mr. Edwin Wilson is situated close to that of Mr. Clay, and has the same aspect, both sloping to the south. But the soil is different, being, the, ordinary soil of the ...
Article : 844 wordsIn consequence of the increasing, importance of fruit-growing in the colony, we have, decided upon obtaining and publishing returns of the crops of the various kinds of fruit cultivated; ...
Article : 208 wordsSUNBURY.--Apple : yield, below, average ; area, one acre, large increase ; disease, American blight (Aphis lanigera), apple moth and Curculio, all on the apple. Apricot: yield, average; ...
Article : 1,696 wordsA large and influential deputation from the above society, introduced by Mr. Buchanan, M.L.C., waited on the Minister of Lands on Dec. 10, to bring under his notice the ...
Article : 892 wordsA paper by Mr. Lenne, read at a meeting of the Echuca Horticultural Society on the 27th ult:-- Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen,--In compliance with your request I beg to submit to your ...
Article : 1,319 wordsBERWICH.--Apple: yield, above the average; area, large, no increase for many years of any consequence, but on the increase; disease, American, blight. Apricot: yield, very bad for ...
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Leader (Melbourne, Vic. : 1862 - 1918, 1935), Sat 13 Dec 1879, Page 9
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