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grad to say that they are so well appreciated that we caught almost any price 
or them. 
Fruit, such as we have had from’these trees, will pay the grower for a bit 
of trouble in packing, and there can be no doubt that a vast improvement is 
needed in this direction. I saw on more than one occasion in salerooms in 
Warwick, this season, fruit offered in cases that were a disgrace to the growers 
who sent them in—old, dirty, dilapidated, patched-up things, certain to lower 
the selling value of their contents. 
Against this I am glad to put the fact that two intelligent growers made 
a trial of our own methods, using the same cases and material, and in both 
instances results were quite satisfactory. 
Any grower, by simply writing, can get all the information we have at 
command as to better styles of cases, cost of timber, nails, cardboards for fancy 
packing, wrapping paper, &c., and it will pay all our growers to wake up on 
these points. . 
Our fourth picture gives aj view of apricots at the same farm. They, like 
the peaches, have done remarkably well, and this year produced a good crop 
of fine fruit. 
We had our serious drawback in marketing the apricots, in the shape of the 
heat wave and hot winds which came just as the fruit was ripening. ‘This was 
an unusual visitation, and had a rather bad effect, but in spite of this our ’cots 
turned out very well. 
FRUITING OF THE MALE PAPAW. 
Mr. Gabriel Kirk, Moonuyra, writes as follows on the above subject :— 
I think it is generally recognised that the male papaw bears no fruit. Now, I 
have a tree from which, last year, I got three papaws, and this year it bore 
between thirty and forty. The storm that came before Christmas knocked 
several off, and others dropped off owing to the dry weather. The tree here 
illustrated had. eighteen papaws on at the time the photograph was taken. To- 
day I got two ripe fruits from it. They had not such a nice flavour as the 
ordinary fruit, nor were they as good as those I got last year, but I blame the 
drought for that. Some of the fruit are as large as a teacup, the others are 
smaller. I have saved the seed from the fruit referred to, and shall try it to 
see the result. The flowers, which are male, with a female here and there, look 
beautiful on their long stems. 1 spoke to Mr. George Wescombe, of Carlton 
House, Mount Morgan, and he thought it was not possible for male flowers to 
ppoduice fruit, so J invited him to look for himself, as seeing is believing. I 
ad had the photo. taken then, and he was very interested in it, and he has 
searched some standard works for information on the subject, but could find no 
mention of such a case. 
Norr.—It was believed at one time that the male flowers of the papaw did not develop fruit, 
but such fruiting is now quite common in the North. We lately saw several male trees bearin 
heavily at the Kamerunga State Nursery, at Cairns, and also on the Lower Russell. We notic 
several trees along the railway line, from Cairns to Kuranda, laden with fruit depending from 
stems nearly 2 feet in length,—ld. Q. A.J. 
FRUIT-GROWING ON OUR STATE FARMS. 
By 8. C. VOLLER. 
As a good many varieties of fruit have now come into bearing at the State 
Farms, the following list will perhaps be of some interest and value to growers, 
as showing what we consider useful sorts suitable 10 the Downs country. 
Any person wishing to obtain wood for either budding or grafting can get 
same on application to this Department, a small charge being made to cover 
packing and postage or freight. (See advertisement:) 
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