MANUKA IN ENGLAND
BEEN SENT PROM WAITANGI LONDON, Feb. 13. At the New Zealand dinner recently the High, Commissioner, Sir James Parr, introdiieeU the .company. the red manuka of New Zealand. Lord Bledisloe sent some 350 packages of manuka seed from the Waitaugi estate to Sir James, who, in his speech'at the dinner, made reference to* the plant and-offered packages of the, seed to all wlio desired to try them mat. The High Commissioner’s Department has been’in ,touc‘h with Sir Arthur W. Hill, director of K'<M Gardens, Who lias reported on the chances of developing the plants in , this country. Sir Arthur states,' that the plant will not grow in London and the Home counties except in a temperate glasshouse. In the West Und South-wekt. parts of Norfolk and Suffolk the seeds might grow in the open, but in Devonshire and other southwest parts of 1 England, there should be no difficulty in cultivating the plant.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18360, 31 March 1934, Page 2
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