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Fruits, Plants, Produce APPLES PICK-YOUR-OWN Granny Smith, Red Delicious, Golden Delicious. Similar quantity of free windfalls. Don’t forget to bring your half price docket. MAIN ROAD, LOBURN Open all day Saturday and Sunday. LARGE EVERGREEN TREES (CEDARS) 6ft only $7.50; 9ft only $l2. EVERGREEN AZALEAS $3.50. McCOR'M-rCK NURSERIES, 38 English Street (off Yaldhurst Road) NUTS TO YOU THERE IS an ever increasing interest in using fruit and nut bearing plants around the farm or home to provide a so.urce of fodder, additional income or even just an interesting change in diet. The small range of nut trees listed below will provide this potential whilst being functional in . providing shade or shelter and adding beauty to your spring and autumn landscape for years to come, ENGLISH WALNUTS Good varieties with thin skinned nuts available. Excellent as shade or avenue trees. Plant in deeply worked soil with plenty of compost or peat added in. Water deeply during dry spells until established. Hardy Deciduous 10 x 6m £3.25 HAZEL NUTS Large bushy growing shrubs very hardy and tolerant of shade and heavy soils. Foliage turning yellow in autumn followed by Catkins through winter. Crops of rounded nuts of good flavour produced reliably with two plants for cross pollination. Big plants $6.95 SWEET CHESTNUTS Majestic, fast growing specimen trees excellent for shade and producing crops of excellent flavoured nuts. Very hardy but prefering a deeply worked soil rich in compost or peat. Water deeply in dry spells until established. D. 8 x 5 m $5.25 CHRISTCHURCH NURSERIES 116 PHILPOTTS ROAD (OFF INNES ROAD) PHONE 852-386. OPEN SEVEN DAYS 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. SAT. and SUN. LOOK FOR TRUCK ON INNES ROAD AT THE WEEK-END. • N.Z. native plants SPECIALLY CREATED FOR NEW ZEALAND CONDITIONS Our native display beds at Woodlands are full of a fascinating range of N.Z. trees and shrubs. As well as the well-known natives we’ve many .unusual ones like N.Z. Coral Broom (Corallospar'tium crassicaule). Myrsine divaricata and Olearia lacunosa. You’ll find 12 varieties of the Matipo and Lemonwood group {Pittosporum), 9 varieties of Native Myrtles (Lophomyrtus) and 6 varieties of Kowhai (Sophora) including the ferny-leaved, rare, dwarf, Stephens Island form. Come and see them, let us help you choose some New Zealand flora for your own garden conditions. OPEN: 8.30 A.M. TO 5.30 P.M. MONDAY TO SATURDAY. 434 HAREWOOD ROAD. Woodland 2_ MILLEST BLACKCURRANT CUTTINGS HIGH YIELDING VARIETY LATER MATURITY FREE OF STEM BORER GOOD STRONG CUTTINGS Bin LONG COMPETITIVELY PRICED LIMITED QUANTITY AVAILABLE Contact: PYNE, GOULD, GUINESS LTD GRAIN DEPARTMENT P.O. Box 112 CHRISTCHURCH Tel 798-600 . > r , STI4