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“ Roslyn.”—This is a fruit of the crab apple (Gorgeous), As a decorative tree it is unique. It is also unvequal)cd for jelly and preserves. “ Cooker.”—The flue sample apple enclosed is Pcasgood Nonsuch, a very desirable apple for the small garden. Yes, yon can obtain this variety from the local nurserymen. “ Curious.”—The sample apples enclosed are similar to the variety named Gravenstein, except in colour. These samples are more highly coloured. Gravenstein is a good cropper in the North Island but an irregular cropper in the south. It is ripe in February. You do not say what this seedling was grafted on, “ A.N.R.”—No doubt your lilac is affected by one of the diseases which arise , from the stock which the lilacs are grafted on. All the named varieties have to he grafted. I would prune'hard when the tree is dormant, and then work in around the roots a dressing of kainit or wood ashes, covering it with some turf from a paddock in spring. F.S.P.
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Evening Star, Issue 21974, 9 March 1935, Page 3
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