PRIMULA MALACOIDES.
This favourite annual is particularly useful for early spring bloom. It does quite well either in full sun or in partial shade, and so far has been wonderfully free from any blight. If the plants are wanted to bloom in the winter, the seed should be sown without delay. The seedlings should be pricked out into boxes of good rich soil, and kept shaded and moist until planting out time in March. London alone consumes something like 50 tons of nuts at Christmas time. A rat, which bit two Glasgow children while they were asleep, was killed I after an exciting hunt, iu which considerable damage was done to furm-
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18203, 2 March 1929, Page 10
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112PRIMULA MALACOIDES. Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18203, 2 March 1929, Page 10
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