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variety to bear good average crops in very wet land 

 in the Adelaide hills. 



The Prune. Another variety of fruit not so ex- 

 tensively tried as the foregoing varieties, but which 

 may yet prove to be a profitable kind, is the prune. 

 As 'most of the prunes at present consumed in 

 Australia are imported, there is a profitable local 

 market for this class of fruit, providing that a satis- 

 factory sample can be produced. After being neg- 

 lected for some time, the prune is now being planted 

 to some extent at Mildura, Yanco, and Berri. 



Some of the best varieties are Fellemberg, Prune 

 d' Agen, Robe de Sargent, Splendour, and Tragedy. 

 Experience has taught that a single variety of 

 prunes does not fruit well if planted by itself, as 

 most of the varieties are self-sterile. Two or three 

 kinds should therefore be planted together. After 

 the first two or three years the trees should be 

 pruned but little, as it has been proved that along 

 the river the prune will not bear satisfactory crops 

 if cut back to any considerable extent. 



CANNING VARIETIES. 



Although very little fruit canning is yet done at 

 the various irrigation settlements, there is every 

 reason to suppose that in the course of time this 

 will yet become an important industry, as the size 

 and quality of the river-grown fruit is superior to 

 that produced on most of the other Australian 

 fruit-growing areas. Where railway facilities are 

 available a considerable quantity of river-grown 

 fruit is annually sent away to city canneries, but 

 where neither railways nor canning works exist 

 heavy plantings of canning varieties should not be 

 made unless there is an early promise of a local 

 canning factory being erected. 



The following are good canning varieties : 



