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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23025, 16 August 1949, Page 2

PLANTS, TREES. ETC. CITRUS, Fruit Trees and Seedlings in variety. See our selection. Marmalade Oranges now ready, 8d lb. At Hardy’s Fruit Exchange, 34 Peel St. DAZZLING Phlox: Hardy perennials in brilliant scarlets, purples, pinks, blues etc., 6 for 8/6. Griffiths Ltd., Mt. Eden, Auckland. MICHAELMAS Daisies, for massed displays. in rich reds, mauves, pinks etc. 6 for 8/6. Griffiths Ltd., Mt. Eden, Auckland. I MONEYMAKER Peas: First early, prolific; well-filled pods of luscious peas, 3/- lb. 31b. for 7/6. Griffiths, Mt. E d en ,_A uck 1 an d. PUKEKOHE Onion Plants (any quantity), Choice Selection of Healthy Seedlings, Cabbage, Cauliflower, Lettuce Plants, Lyons Vegetable and Flower Packet Seeds. Asparagus, Rhubarb. Wildish’s Auction Mart. PLANTS ready now: Calendulas, Canterbury Bells, Cinerarias, Cornflower, Delphiniums, Dianthus, Lobelia, Livingstone Daisy, Nemesia, Primulas, Stocks, Scabious, etc. D. S. Thompson & Co. __ RARE. Unusual: Write today for free book of Spring Novelty Plants and Seeds. Griffiths Ltd., Mt. Eden, Auckland. SPECIAL Carnations from Burpee's Hand Pollenised Choice Seed. Good plants. 5/- per dozen. D. S. Thompson & Co. SALVIAS: New introductions in shades of mauves. rose, blues, etc. 6 for 11/-. Griffiths Ltd., Mt. Eden, Auckland. SPRING Seeds: These 6 for 2/6: Aster, Phlox, Zinnia, Petunia. French, African Marigold. Griffiths, Mt. Eden, Auckland, SEBAgG, the best cropping potato of them all. Now on sale at Te Hapara Nursery, 271 Gladstone Rd. Phone 2302. “TETRASNAPS,” the new change from Antirrhinums. These are a novelty and worth trying. Plants 2/6 per dozen. D. S. Thompson & Co. ROSES STANDA.RDS " 8/6 ea.: Climbing and Polyantha, 2/9 ea. Good selection Choice Shrubs and Flowering Trees, from 4/6 ea. Inspection invited. Pukekohe and Spanish Onion Plants, 1/6 100, 12/6 1000. Any quantity. D. T. ENGLISH & SON, 30 Gordon St. Phone 5386. TTS FRUIT TREES IN QUANTITY AND QUALITY ARBOR NURSERIES (Previously E. J. Bettelheim) ASPARAGUS AND HOW TO GROW IT ! SOLID 2-year Crowns of Mary Washington, biggest and tastiest of them all —with fullest details how to make the bed, manure it, plant it, grow it into delicious inch-thick nuggets of healthful goodness. 20 Crowns 10/-; 50 Crowns £l. Post free. From— JOHN BRIGHT, the QUALITY Seedsman, 9 Rangitikei Street, Palmerston North, 784 Antirrhinum, Asters, Calendula, Cornflower, Dimorphotheca, Lobelia, Iceland Poppies, Livingstone Daisy, Phlox, Schizanthus, Stocks, Viscaria, Wallflower, Statice, Jacobea, Annual Chrysanthemum, all 1/6 doz. Cineraria, Violas, Petunias, 2/- doz.; Canterbury Bells, Double Hollyhocks, Giant Pansy, Polyanthus, Geums, 2/6 doz. PERENNIAL PHLOX, 12 varieties, 1/6 ea. TOMATO PLANTS—2/- doz. BERRIDGE’S FLORISTS I FRUIT TREES FRUIT TREES THE New Peach, “Gisborne Golden,” is excellent for all purposes, ripening April when most peaches are finished. Twenty other varieties of peaches from which to choose. Also in stock: Plums and Pears in variety, Walnuts. Feijoas, Black and Red Currants, Cherries, Grape Vines, Figs, Guavas, Loganberries, Boysenberries, Raspberries, Tree Tomatoes, red and yellow. Strawberry Plants, 1/6 dozen, 10/- per 100, or the new Strawberry. “Melody,” which is blight proof. 2/6 dozen, 15/- per 100.

D. S. THOMPSON & CO. Gladstone Road, Gisborne. GOSSAMERY GYPSOPHILAS ! INDISPENSABLE for all finer, more effective cut flower arrangement, enhancing the beauty of other blooms with that added artistic touch that just MAKES the PERFECT Bouquet. Also grand for showy Garden Display, thencompact spherical bushes showering in graceful profusion billowy clouds qf innumerable double rosettes from tip to base. BRISTOL FAIRY Larger Improved Double Pure Snow White, EARLY, 3/6; LAVENDER LADY Double Soft Amethyst-Lavender, MIDSEASON, 3/6; FLAMINGO Latest New Double Lolly Pink. LATE, 5/-. Fine Strong Healthy Plants—Set 3 diff. 10/COMPLETE 40-page PLANTING GUIDE and REFERENCE BOOK, beautifully illustrated in colour—Free. JEMMETTS NOVELTY PLANT SPECIALISTS, Palmerston North. 140 THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE SUPER DELPHINIUM HOW THE BRILLIANT ‘MONTEJREY’ STRAIN WAS PERFECTED FROM a championship Pacific strain, a selection of perfect bloom spikes was made. ONLY TWO FLORETS on each of these were allowed to mature, and these were carefully hand-fertilised. The seed was grown, and process repeated AGAIN—AND AGAlN—many times. The results of this tedious, painstaking work is now presented for the FIRST TIME! Huge florets on stately six-foot spikes—almost unbelievable richness of iridiscent colours —silky methyl violet and mushroom pink, hyacinth and gentian blues, amethyst and pastel rose, silver grey and petunia purple, pastel rose and bishop's purple, petunia and lilac—these and a score of delightful variations are the unanswerable arguments in favour of their being ill every beauty lover's garden. Yet they’ve INEXPENSIVE! Special collections of mixed shaded, 6 for 8/6, 15/- dozen. ONLY FROM JOHN BRIGHT, the QUALITY Seedsman, 9 Rangitikei St., Palmerston North. 726 NOW YOU CAN HAVE THE NEWEST. LOVELIEST and HIGHESTPRICED GLADIOLI FOR ONLY lOd Each. No need to pay 5/-, 10/-, £1 or MORE EACH for those gorgeous new introductions that are scooping all the Championships on the New Zealand Show-benches. THEY CAN BE YOURS FOR ONLY lOd EACH! Because WE ARE AGAIN MAKING GLADIOLUS HISTORY WITH OUR I BRILLIANT “ON-PURPOSE” GLADi lOLI MIXTURE. COMPRISING THE NEWEST, HIGHEST-PRICED AND FINEST - QUALITY GLADIOLI ! SHOWN IN N.Z.. AT A PRICE OF | ONLY 10/- DOZEN. Here is the ' Gladiolus-growers’ dream and a , worthy successor to our brilliantly i successful “ACCIDENT” Mixture. A ; carefully prepared selection of specially chosen championship corms in I varieties ranging up to 30/- each. ! Clean, deep, sterilised corms of TOP [ SIZE ONLY, sent out in perfect conI dition to produce tire enormous blooms that have made our mixtures famous. Resounding names—Spotlight, Strath- ' naver. Blue Orchid. Chief Multnomah, | Pastel, Gloria, Keith—the best of the new Erry Hybrids—the glorious Both varieties —these and many other chamI pions have been blended into a seleci tion of unparalleled beauty. Fullest ! cultural and timing instructions wTh every order. ONLY ONE PR'CE—--10- doz. IRRESPECTIVE OF QUAN-TITY-EACH DOZEN WILL CONTAIN A MINIMUM OF 30/- CORM VALUE. Order your Gladioli IMMEDIATELY from JOHN BRIGHT, the Quality Seedsman, 9 Rangitikei St... Palmerston North. 785