Early Nursery
In the IBOUS a nursery was estanlisned in what is now the central area of Christchurch. In the Banks lecture to the Royal New Zealand Institute of Horticulture last evening Mr C. E. Foweraker, senior lecturer in botany at Canterbury University College, recalled that William Wilson had established this nursery in the block bounded by Cashel, Lichfield, Manchester, and Madras streets. Mr Foweraker said that in 1865 Wilson advertised in addition to a wide range of fruit trees, ornamental trees, ann shrubs also forse, broom, sweet briar, and elder. Wilson also had a seed business and in the middle 60s he had advertised 10 hundredweight of gorse and broom lor sale, plants that the present generation were still seeking to eradiJ a J®- Mr Foweraker said he had been wteri stackberry was * he We,t C ® aat at sixpence a
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Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26353, 22 February 1951, Page 6
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