Country from Lowburn right away to Lake Wanaka is equally suitable for Fruitgrowing.

At Bannockburn there are many small patches of fruit trees planted by miners. Except for scale insects and codlin moth, the trees have done remarkably well, page 8 showing that wherever water can be obtained the land is capable of producin[unclear: g] fruit. From Cromwell I proceeded up to Arrowtown. There are a fe[unclear: w] orchards there which produce remarkably fine fruit. From there I went to [unclear: Qu] town, and on the following day visited the orchards in the neighbourhood of [unclear: Fra] and the surrounding districts, also Mr. Allan's (late Colonel Fraser's) at [unclear: Spea] Flat. Formerly a very large orchard existed here, but many of the trees hav[unclear: e] destroyed by scale insects. The present proprietor—a very wealthy man—[unclear: inten] renovate the few remaining trees and to plant extensively of the most suitabl[unclear: e] this present winter. In nearly all the districts surrounding Cromwell, extending and along the foot-hills of the Dunstan Range