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of the above ífruits are produced at present in sufficient 
plu 
be ees. for fruit- -growing, but it requires capital to develop this 
indus 
At arent the supply of fruit is only sufficient for the wants of the 
inhabitants, and until more land is brought arp cultivation by imported 
labour and capital, there will be no fruits expor 
Oranges and apples are imported into thé 'Dolohiy from Adelaide, 
Melbourne, and Tasmania during the time that these fruits are scarce 
in the Colony. 
Besides the above-named fruits there are many others which could 
be eultivated in the more northern parts of the Colony, and others in 
the southern 
e vine grows well anywhere between the Blackwood and Gerald- 
ton. -Omitting unsuitable portions, there would be, at a low eie 
9,000 square miles eric for the Lade of the MX The 
tribe do well in the same latitude e grape, but they lier a 
moister soil. There is a one eed “of edid — soil east of the 
Darling range very suitable ue. 
The cultivation of fruits Et o more capital to start with than other 
agricultural pursuit, and there are very few in this Colony who can afford 
to wait a number of years before they receive any return for the outlay. 
TASMANIA, 
On the fruits of Tasmania, the following ver has been received 
through the Governor of "Tasmania, prepare ed b y Mr. F. Abbott, Super- 
intendent of the Botanic Gardens, Hobart Town 
The apple, Pyrus Malus, is encre ely grown, and the fruit attains 
a degree of perfection not ordinarily reached in the other Australian 
Colonies. ‘Tasmanian grown apples are celebrated for their flavour and 
md rone : 
y kinds, such as Juneating, begin to ripen late in January, - 
but the il of the dm ed fruit is gathered from March to the end of 
ay me of the best keeping vari ieties keeping sound up to Chiti e 
or till the early apples are fit for x 
e pear, Pyrus communis, is alo uc piod grown, and exported 
to the other Colonies, and the same remarks o quality would xc E 
as in the case of the apple; the agb is as aulis so extended, th 
better kinds being over by the end of Ju Y: ae 
he plum, Prunus domestica, is largely grown, principally for the Le 
manufacture of jam; the better kinds are also exported in a fresh state, - 
ihe season being from January to April. : 
The apricot, pale i vulgaris, is also grown in quantity principally 
for the manufac of jam ; the trees fruit comparatively early, and the — 
crop, which is in aie from January to March, is considered a v: very. 2 
paying ear xe 
The peach, Persica vulgaris, grows Td in pee soils ; grown 
The 
standards it fruits very freely, and is — 
seldom exported, but is used for local soutuntion: ees hence it - not E 
A priate planted. 
