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Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27011, 10 April 1953, Page 8

For the expenditure of Is 4d a of Takapuna, Auckland, has abundant supplies of almonds for about 30 years. In 1916. Miss E. McDonnell bought two seedling trees for ■ e A ac ? and Panted them at her heme in Auburn street. Almonds are easy & J r £ r w r and r e< * uire Httle attention. Miss McDonnell says. Miss McDonnell has entered the almonds with apples, grapes and pears, in a group of four fruits in the Takapuna horticultural snow on a number of occasions, and the group has taken prizes. But soon she will lose her original almond trees, because recently the land round her home was subdivided and the part on which the trees grow will be used for croquet lawns. However, she will still have almonds because some time ago, Miss McDonnell took a seedling from one of the original trees and planted it in her back garden.