PREFACE 



During the expansion of the citrus industry that 

 has within recent years taken place along the Murray 

 Valley the absence of any book of a general nature 

 dealing with the culture of citrus fruits under local 

 conditions has often been a considerable .handicap 

 to new growers in the laying out and management 

 of their plantations. It is with the object of 

 attempting to remedy this disability that this work is 

 published, and it is the author's hope that new 

 and prospective citrus growers may find the informa- 

 tion herein contained of some use to them. 



A considerable portion of the subject matter 

 contained in the following pages has been taken 

 from the author's previous works from a pamphlet 

 entitled Orange Culture, published in 1914, and from 

 Fruitgrowing under Irrigation, published in 1918. 

 The whole of such extracts from these works as are 

 herein incorporated have been revised, two new 

 chapters have been added, and an endeavor made 

 to present the subject to the reader in a plain and 



concise form. 



F. E. ABKDT. 

 Berri, Eiver Murray, 

 South Australia. 



4th November, 1919. 



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