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Otago Daily Times, Issue 10625, 21 March 1896, Page 6

SOMETHING WORTH OROWBfl,! New Strawberry:" Laxton's Moble." This new Strawberry has established itself in the Home market as tha VERY BEST Strawberry under cultivation. The fruit is large, firm, and handsome, the bright crimson scarlet berries ■weighing as high as 2oa each, ■while the flavour is rich and vinous. Besides these recommendations, " The Noble " is one of the earliest fruiting Strawberries, and we have, no hesitation in saying that it is undoubtedly the Strawberry for growers of this favourite fruit. The following ie extracted from the Ofcago Witness of 2nd January 1896:— New Strawberry::" Laxton's Noble."— . . .Thisstrawberry excels both in size, flavour, and appearance anything we have bad in New Zealand before. . . . Some of these fine berries "were sent by the Countess of Pembroke to the Emperor of Germany—each .berry being about the size of an apple. They wore said to be larger than had ever • been seen before. The fruit arrived in excellent condition, not a berry being crushed, speaking well both for the packing and the travelling qualities of the berries. On the average the berries weighed 2oz each. They were not big, ugly fruit, but were full and handsome. . . . "Laxton's Noble" Strawberry comes early into bearing, and ie a very heavy bearer, a§d it should be very serviceable for any cottager with small garden space or for market gardeners, as it is a splendid grower and a heavy cropper, coming early into fruit. Mr Beonet has on young plants, laid in the spring, eight to ten large berries, averaging, say, 2oz each. They are fine handsome berries, and of good travelling :qualities. ■'■■ ' As Stock is limited we recommend ordering early for delivery eal"ly in May. Strong- well-rooted Plants, 6s per dozen; 40s per 100. Seed Merchants and Seed Growers, DUNEDIN.

How shall we' got rid of the Ottoman Empire in Earope without bringingabout a great European war ? This is the question that absorbs the attention of Earope to an extraordinary degree to-day. An Englishman cannot travel in a railway carriage ob the Continent _ without finding someone aDxiono to discuss it with him ; and, happily, he will find that in almost every case the opinion of the average man whom he meets in the railway carriage is something entirely different from that of the journalists who in Paris, Vienna, and Berlin pretend to. give utterance to the views of their respective, countries. —Speaker.

— The blind, as we*'all know, have the sense of touch most singularly sensitive. A writer in a medical contemporary now cites the case of a post mortem examination of a blind mau which revealed that in the nervas at theeuds of the fingers well-defined calls of grey matter hnd formud, identical in substance and in cell formation with tlw prpy mutter of tha brain..

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