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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 8814, 1 March 1892, Page 5

At the Chrysanthemum Show lately held at York, England, special notice was taken of the American aloe, exhibited in flower by Lord Deramore. As there are some erroneous notions abroad respecting the flowering of this plant, the following exrracts were published in the Gardeners' Chronicle from that classical work on horticulture, " Miller's Gardeners' Dictionary," 1731 " I can't here forbear taking notice of a vulgar error or two relating to the large American aloe, which is that it never flowers until it is an hundred years old, which is a mistake, since we have had several of them flower in England, some of which were known not to exceed fifty years old, etc " . . . " Another common error is that when the flower opens it makes a report like that of firing a gun : this is sufficiently confuted by all those who have been where these plants have flowered ; bub I suppose the rise of the story might proceed from some persons saying when one of these plants flowered it made a great noise, meaning, thereby, that whenever one of them flowered in England it was spread abroad as an uncommon thing, and occasioned a great noise amongst the neighbouring inhabitants, most of whom usually repair to see it as a thing that rarely happens and as a great curiosity." A Household Word.—Mrs. S. A. Allen's Worl.Ts Hair Restorer, which ncrer falls to restore grey hair to its youthful colour, gloss, and beauty, Soul (sveiywlwre. 11