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PASSION VINE ■UNDER GLASS. "Passion."—The passion fruit is usually grown in the open in climates where severe frosts are not usual. As your vine is healthy and making good growth the failure to fruit is not apparently due to the soil. Possibly the growth is too rank. Shorten back the growths, especially the side blanches to two or three buds. The leaders may be left a little longer. The fruit is borne on new wood only, hence the necessity of cutting back each season after the fruiting season. GRASS GRUB. "J.0.H.," Pctono. —There Jiave becu manj- inquiries about the treatment for "grass grub." '"'Apply Uestar - Grass Grub Exterminator, I
according to instruction on tho container. This is. the, only, thing which has proved satisfactory up to the present. This preparation may be obtained from the seedsman or from Kestar, Ltd., 61 Courtenay Place, Wellington.
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 103, 4 May 1933, Page 17
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