'Wilderness to Orchard': The Export Apple Industry in Nelson, New Zealand 1908-1940. (1st November 2003)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Roche, Michael
• Is Part Of: Environment and history. Volume 9:Number 4(2003:Oct.)
• Page Start: 435
• Page End: 450
• Publication Date: 2003-11-01
• Subjects: New Zealand -- apples -- sprays -- nature; Human ecology -- History -- Periodicals; Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- Periodicals; Human beings -- Effect of environment on -- Periodicals; 304.209
• DOI: 10.3197/096734003129342926
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0967-3407

Abstract

Abstract : The orchard is suggestive of the ways in which commercial apple growing was represented as an idealised lifestyle linking rural economy and nature. But it was dependent on spraying as a means of controlling pests and disease and shaped increasingly by apple importing countries.