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CORRECT. 



INCORRECT. 



Pruning Citrus Trees, 



THE above photographs show, by con- 

 trast, the injurious effects of in- 

 correctly pruning trees of the citrus 

 variety on the Coast. The photographs 

 represent two trees at Mr. Vincent 

 Seymour's fruit farm, Malvern. The 

 photographs were taken from exactly the 

 same distance from the stems of the re- 

 spective trees. The tree which is a failure 

 is pruned up to 2 feet 6 inches from the 

 ground, while the other, which was 

 allowed to branch out at about 18 inches 

 from the ground, is as fine a specimen as 

 a grower can wish to see. The soil and 

 all other conditions of the two trees 

 are identical. They constitute, as Mr. 

 Seymour remarked in the " Interview " 

 (No. 3, Vol. IV.), an excellent object- 



lesson. By leaving the branches low 

 down the stem is protected from the sun. 

 " The wood," says Mr. Seymour, " is hard, 

 and the outer bark is closely attached to 

 the wood, and will not stand the direct 

 rays of the sun, especially when the 

 thermometer registers, as it does some- 

 times, 90 to 95 degrees in the shade." 



The Taieri Advocate states that several well- 

 known gentlemen in the Taieri district have 

 been attempting to open up a cattle trade with 

 South Africa. Dairy cattle landed at Durban 

 would be worth £30 each. The chief difficulty 

 is presented by the fact that in certain weather 

 conditions it is impossible to land cattle at 

 Durban, and the shipowners will give no 

 gujirantee as to their disembarkation (I) 



