Temuka has for years held a high reputation for growing large gooseberries, and some of the samples of this year’s collection of Mr A. C. Watson are no exception to the rule. A sample picked from two bushes recently went eighteen to the pound, the largest berry weighing a little over an ounce. Mr Watson, who is an ardent horticulturist, does not consider the berries abnormal. He stated that some years ago the Horticulaural Society had a class for heavy-weight gooseberries. At that time, he stated, any exhibitor who could not stage twelve or thirteen berries to the pound had no chance of winning a prize. On one occasion an exhibitor (Mr George Smith) put on a single berry which turned the scale at two ounces.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 661, 14 January 1933, Page 25 (Supplement)
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