FLOWERS IN SOUTH

Waikato Independent, Volume XXXI, Issue 2781, 28 November 1931, Page 4

FLOWERS IN SOUTH

BETTER BLOOMS THAN FOR YEARS PAST. HEAT FORCING GROWTH. Christchurch at the present time is probably enjoying the finest display of flowers that it has had for 10 years past. The season, both last autumn and during the present spring and carly summer, has been more favourable to growth and bloom than it has for years. There has been nothing to mar the perfection of flowers in the way of checks to the weather and windstorms to blow things about. Roses are the kings of the garden at present, and everywhere there is a magnificent show of them. Other flowers that are blooming well are peonies, rhododendrons, pyrethrums, sweet peas, perennial lupins, ami oriental poppies. For fruit trees and flowering trees and shrubs, everything depends on what the previous autumn was like, a reporter was informed by a well-known gardening enthusiast a few days ago. Ho said that last autumn had been a splendid season, and the winter and spring of this year also had been good, so that everything was in excellent order for the carrying out of Nature's work. Vegetation had been enabled to go ahead without check, and the result was seen in the perennial flowers, the fruit trees, and the flowering trees and shrubs. Things in the vegetable gardens were doing almost too well because of the forward season, and private gardens were being so well supplied that there was a glut in some vegetables when there should be a scarcity. This applied to peas and to some extent strawberries, while potatoes would soon be very plentiful. Those planting late potatoes as a commercial venture might conic off well this year, as the early vegetables might be off the market. The market gardeners were rather unfortunate in the season, providing a rather early glut.