MULBERRIES.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 19258, 20 December 1930, Page 20 (Supplement)

MULBERRIES.

The mulberry is a curiously oldfashioned tree, seldom seen in a modern garden ( writes our London correspondent). The large squashy fruit, now at its b<?st, is for some reason seldom in fruiterers’ shops, and the housewife who wants to make mulberry jelly would have to make a long search before she could find a greengrocer able to supply her. I was interested, therefore, to meet to-day one of the leading figures in Kentish fruitgrowing, who not only grows thousands of tons of fruit every year, but also controls a jam factory. Ho tells me that every year he plants a certain number of nuilberry trees. He believes that, by the time his sons are middle-aged, the mulberry may become a “smart” fruit, owing to the gradual disappearance of the old trees, and the fact that few new ones are ever planted. Ho is unostentatiously planting mulberry trees against that day.

There are not many people who know that the very best polish for a diningroom table is old tea. Having first washed the table with soapy warm water and dried it thoroughly, apply a little cold tea with a clean piece of rag, dry with a second piece of rag, and finally polish with an extra soft cloth of chamois leather. By this process the table will have taken on a new lease of life, the wood not only polished beyond all expectations, but having also gained a certain amount of depth of colour.