FORCED GROWTH IS IT GOOD OR BAD?
(To the Editor of the Evening Star.)
-■■■'* Sir,—-Having had frequent occasions to pass the gardens at Parawai, kept by our friends the Chinamen, my attention has been arrested by the foul smell arising from the garden opposito Mr Bank's slauphter-yard. I have no animosity to " John," but, to clench all controversy on the subject, I would advise my fellow citizens who are in the habit of: buying vegetables from the Chinamen to visit their gardens late at night or early in the morning, and pass their own opinion. -I love a garden as much as any man, but the foul refuse used by John should never have a place in my garden for the mere purpose of forcing an unnatural growth to small quick growing vegetables.. I should not offer the same objections^ if the refuse uselgrwas incorporated' with the soil for a*reasonable time before planting. But, when such vegetables as turnips, cabbage, lettuce, radishes are grown and eaten before the refuse, used for growing them is half rotted into compest, the' consequence to consumers through the use of such vegetables must be bad.—l am, &c, T. B.
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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2177, 27 December 1875, Page 2
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195FORCED GROWTH IS IT GOOD OR BAD? Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2177, 27 December 1875, Page 2
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