A Wanganui Chinese market gardener has discovered a means of keeping the white butterfly off his cabbage patch. He informed a reporter that he noticed that the butterfly did not settle on the lettuce plants, so by way of experiment he boiled a quantity of outside leaves of the lettuces and sprayed the water on to the cabbages. The result, he states, is highly satisfactory-
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Southland Times, Issue 22010, 9 May 1933, Page 6
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