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THE AUSTRALIAN GARDENER. 
September 1, 1908> 
New Market, Adelaide, 
WHOLESALE FRUIT & PRODUCE MERCHANTS. 
Fresh Fruit and Vegetables packed and forwarded to all parts of the States at lowest 
rates for cash. A trial solicited. 
Licensed Land Broker, 
Apacer Z 
House, Land, Estate, Financial, and 
Insurance Agent. 
92, Pirie Chamber's, Pirie St. Wdelaide 
Houses and Land Bought and Sold on Commission. 
All Real Property Act business attended to. 
Mortgages, Transfers, Leases, and all other documents 
prepared. 
Transfer of Grown Leases a speciality, 
Money to Lend on Freehold and other Approved 
Security in Sums to Suit Borrowers. 
Several Nice Farms and Gardens for Sale. 
in nursery rows about Bin deep, and 
transplant the next year, 
The young trees should be allowed to 
grow straight up, cutting away every 
autumn all the side branches, till the 
tree has reached a height of 6ft. It 
should then be allowed to branch out, but 
under no circumstances should the main 
stem be cut off. Walnut trees usually go 
into bearing in five or six years; at 
twelve years they are in full bearing. It 
is not a slow grower, as commonly sup- 
posed. Three to fourfeet is not an un- 
common growth in a season on good soil ; 
besides, it is a healthy tree, having, com- 
paratively speaking, few pests to molest 
it. Once established, it lives to a green 
old age, and prves profitable to generation 
after generation with ordinary care. The 
ground beneath the trees, until they 
come into full bearing, can be utilised for 
berries or vegetables, but no grain or 
grass should be grown.” 
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GATHERING THE Crop. 
At harvest time the nuts fall to the 
ground as soon as their hull bursts— 
which it does when the nuts are ripe. 
They should then be cured, either in the 
sun or subjected to a gentle heat in an 
evaparator to prevent them becoming 
mildewed or rancid. Any nuts remain- 
ing on the trees after the majority have 
fallen can be beaten down with a stick. 
Fruit-growing. 
It may be confidently asserted that no 
portion of the world is more admirably 
suited to the production of a very wide 
range of those fruits which belong to the 
temperate and sub-tropical zones than is 
the state of South Australia. Let the 
horticulturist of Europe or North America 
imagine strawberries, cherries, apples, 
pears, walnuts, gooseberries, plums, 
apricots, peaches, quinces, loquats, 
almonds, olives, figs, grapes, oranges, 
lemons, and mulberries —all growing 
together on a 10-acre block, and with no 
aid save that afforded by the natural rain 
and sunshine bringing their fruits to the 
very highest state of perfection—and he 
will realise not what can be done, but 
what is a common result obtained in 
many of the gardens in the hills and 
guliies near Adelaide. 
In the 400 miles of country which. 
stretches from Penola or Mount Gambier 
in the south-east to Wirrabarra in the 
north, are included thousands of acres of; 
land with possibilities for fruit produc- 
tion almost incalculable. Within that. 
area are encountered all the varying con- 
ditions of rainfall, soil, and sun heat 
requisite to the many phases of fruit. 
culture; and this great range of climatic 
conditions affords opportunities for 
specialisation. The growth of the 
industry— since it has been recognised as 
such—has been along these lines, until 
now we find groups of fruit growing 
centres clearly defined, both in their 
areas and in their productions. In these, . 
the cultivation of fruits hailing from 
colder zones chiefly follows the elevated. 
lands, while the heat-loving sorts find 
congenial surroundings upon the sunny 
plains between the ranges, to an extent 
only limited by the supply of ayailable- 
moisture in the soil, In the south-eastern. 
portion of the State, the apple, pear, and 
plum reach that perfection which has 
been usually considered a privilege of, 
colder countries only. 
At the Coonawarra  Fruit-growing 
Colony—established about 18 years ago. 
near Penola—there are hundreds of acres 
of orchards grouped in one continuous 
area. From this centre thousands of 
cases of fine apples are annually exported 
to countries outside Australasia. Situa- 
ted within a mile of the Government 
railway line, ready facilities for transport 
are handy, while in other respects the 
settlers enjoy a community of interest 
not possible in more scattered locilities, 
The rainfall here is abundant, reaching 
about 27in, per annum. The intending 
settler can secure such Jand at about £5. 
