GROWN IN AUCKLAND.
j WELL-MATURED BANANAS. I The photograph on this page of a j small bunch of the Queensland or sugar i variety of banana shows that this fruit occasionally ripens successfully in Auckland. The bunch of 15 mature yellow fruit which forms the subject of the photograph began to flower in April, , 1935, in the garden of Mr. R. L. Pudney, !on the waterfront of the Waitemata Harbour, Herne Bay, w.fth a north-west i aspect and in ordinary so-called gumj land, but well tilled. ! The bunch was cut on April 22, 1936, I when the individual bananas were about j four inches long and an inch to an inch and a half through, and quite green. They have ripened to a bright yellow in a cool room, the rind pealing off readily like the longer yellow fruit from the islands and the pulp inside is sweet and j rich and of a good flavour.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 117, 19 May 1936, Page 9
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