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VALUABLE SEEDS GUARDED WORTH NEARLY £5OO A POUND LONDON, June 4. Some seeds are so valuable that they have to be carefully guarded. Certain double-petunia seeds are kept in a safe deposit. This seed is worth nearly £5OO a lb. Still more valuable are the seeds of a certain kind of gloxinia, which not long ago commanded as much as £750 a lb. In both cases the world's stocks are very small.
Although the best celery is grown in France, the seed of French celery planted elsewhere yields poor crops. The result is that fresh plants have to be imported from France every year.
The English green pea is equally difficult to grow outside that country. Plant English peas in Canada or Amerfea and you will be disappointed. Peas need years of acclimatising before they will yield well in a foreign soil.
Not many seeds retain life longer than ten or twelve years.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLV, Issue 21086, 12 July 1938, Page 7
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158KEPT IN A SAFE DEPOSIT Timaru Herald, Volume CXLV, Issue 21086, 12 July 1938, Page 7
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