1920.] 



Fruit Trees for Small Holdings. 



413 



It is iiriderstood that certain Councils have been considering 

 the desira})ility of providing fruit trees for some of their small 



Supply of Fruit lioldings, and in view of the present short- 

 Trees for age and the difficulty of obtaining trees of 



Small Holdings, good quality and true to name, the 

 ^Ministry has made arrangements for the supply of a limited 

 number of fruit trees for planting during the coming autumn 

 and in the autumn of 1921. The trees are not to be sold by the 

 Council to their tenants, but are to remain the property of the 

 Council, who will arrange for their proper planting and recoup 

 their outlay by means of a suitable increase in the rent of the 

 holding. 



The arrangements made provide for the supply of the follow- 

 ing varieties: — 



Apples. 



Bramley's Seedling Gladf^tone 

 Xewtoii Wonder Worcester Pearmain 



Lane's Prince Alhert Allington Pippin 



Grenadier James Grieve 



Early Victoria Rival 

 Beauty of Bath 



PJama. Pears on Quince. 



Victoria Conference 

 Czar Dr. Jules Guyot 



Purple Egg Plum Fertility 

 Early Rivers 

 Belle de Lou vain 



A proportion of the apples will be supplied on Paradise and 

 others on Crab stocks. All the two-year-old trees to be supplied 

 in 1921 will be " feathered." It is advisable that a high stan- 

 dard of selection shall be maintained on holdings where fruit 

 is planted, and in order that this standard may be attained the 

 Ministry has arranged for the fruit trees to be carefully 

 examined with a view to ensuring their freedom from disease. 



The price to be charged for the maiden trees supplied this 

 autuum will be £10 10s. Od. per hundred, free on rail, packing 

 extra. It is not possible at present to quote a definite price 

 for the two-year-old trees to be supplied next year. 



