“We have to think six or nine months ahead to gauge what the city will require in the way of shrubs, trees and flowers.” said Air M. J. Barnett, Superintendent of City Council Parks and Reserves, when members of the Christchurch Beautifying Association visited the City Council nursery at Linwood yesterday. Mr Barnett showed the visitors frames of geranium cuttings. which are being propagated for planting in city reserves next year. Canterbury bell seedlings for next season are well ahead, as are boxes of forget-me-nots due for planting in. April. There are primula seedlings also, to be planted out in 1934,
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Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 708, 8 March 1933, Page 8
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