Chinese Gooseberry.
A Garden Corner
rpHIS delectable fruit is the very latest addition to the list of dessert fruits now available, and quantities from the North Island are now reaching the local market. In appearance, it is quite distinctive, about the size of a passion fruit, and is dull yellow when ripe, the outer skin being cox'ered with a fluffy covering.
It cuts solid, the skin holding a close green-coloured flesh with many small seeds. The flax’our is distinct, and either for salads or dessert, this new fruit is bound to become popular. Known botanically as Actinidia Chinersis, it comes, of course, from China, and was first brought to the Dominion about ten years ago. It is necessary to have two plants—male and female—to ensure cropping, and for this reason nurserymen offer it in pairs as grafted plants. The Actinidia is a strong-growing climbing plant well worth having for co\ r ering trellis or fence. T. D. LENNIE.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20650, 26 June 1935, Page 6
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158Chinese Gooseberry. Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20650, 26 June 1935, Page 6
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