IMPROVED CROPS
Improvement in the quality and cropping power of vegetables is a task which the seed-growing industry is pursuing with tireless energy. It only remains for the keen grower to study carefully the catalogues of progressive seed firms and choose those varieites for trial which promise superiority over the older strains. A new French bean receiving a good deal of notice in English horticultural journals is named tho Prince, and this variety grown side by side with three or four older French beans, was the first to bear usable pods. It withstood drought better, and continued cropping for a longer period. In peas, also, important work is going on. Ono great improvement is in the production of varieties which will yield well-filled pods in liberal quantities on dwarf plants. One named Phenomenon, and another named Advance Guard, have been remarkable in this respect. Dwarfer still, but prodigious croppers, are Histon Wonder, Kelvedon Wonder and Little Giant, while for an especially early crop, Prelude, a dwarf of Buperb flavour, is worth trying.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22350, 22 February 1936, Page 34 (Supplement)
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172IMPROVED CROPS New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22350, 22 February 1936, Page 34 (Supplement)
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