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Otago Witness, Issue 3842, 1 November 1927, Page 75

The huge Queensland banana tree (Musa Arnoldinanum), in the Cuningham Bequest House in the Christchurch Botanic Gardens is coming into flower (says the Sun). Iwo and a-half years ago it was plante-l out from a 4in pot. It is now 40ft high and the trunk,-at 3ft from the ground,' is 9ft in circumference. It towers over everything else, and as it threatened to become top-heavy, it was necessary to cut some of its huge leaves near the ground Not for many years have the orchards 't Alexandra and district looked better than at present (says the Alexandra Herald). Pears and apples are showing an exceptional amount of bloom and should the district escape frost the crop should be a' record one. The stone fruit prop will also l>e heavy, and will necessitate a lot of thinainoshould ao frosts intervene.