ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS
J.M. (Pakenham), Victoria.—The Messrs Hunter Brothers have no agency in this part of the world for their • Whinbom’s Industry Gooseberry,’ nor do I kuow the price. One of the brothers made a tour of the colonies some eighteen mouths ago. Your best plan would be to write them. Their address is J. and II Hunter, Nursery Gardens, Morpeth, Englaud, when no doubt they will be glad to communicate with you on tha subject. lam glad to hear that the Mail is so much appreciated in Victoria. Its circulation is rapidly increasing in each of the Australian colonies. Troubled (Newtown). — About the best plan to kill docks or thistles is to cut them off level with the ground, and then put a pinch of salt on the plants wfcioh is sudden death to them and vegetation generally. Enquirer (Inglewood)—lt is not a difficult task to distinguish the male and female blossoms of the cucumber, melon, vegetable marrow or pampkin. The female blossoms are known by the emrbys fruit immediately below them, while the male or barren ones are flowers only on a BimDle stalk usually longer than the others. The male blossoms are also much larger than the female ones.
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1024, 16 October 1891, Page 25
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