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Journal of Agricuhurf, Victoria. [10 March, 1917. 



APPLE CULTURE IN VICTORIA. 



By J. Farrell, Orchard Supervisor. 



(Continued frimi page 30.) 



Pruning the Yates. 

 Prior to the advent of cool storage, the Yates, like the Rokewood, 

 Rome Beauty, and others with late ripening and good-keeping charac- 



Plate 62. — Yates, twelve years old, unpruned. 



teristics when stored in the ordinary way, was regarded as a serviceable 

 and profitable variety, and it was largely cultivated for export, as we.ll 

 as for our own markets. Mainly owing to the general adoption of the 

 cool storage principles, however, the Yates has not been so extensively 

 planted during recent years as formerly. Other varieties more pc,pu- 

 larly favoured for dessert purposes, and which were more difficult to 



