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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 222, 19 September 1936, Page 13

MAJESTIC RESTAURANT Victoria Avenue. Just Round from the Drill Hall. Serves All Kinds of the Best Meals. Open Late at Nights. a Those who give thought and care to the selection of gifts will find pleasure in choosing from the COTTAGE CRAFT VICTORIA AVENUE Where articles of unusual charm and appeal arc to he found. Hand-painted novelties, crafts, garden ornaments, and other wares are a delight to the eye SNAPSHOT YOLK GARDEN! And send your films to WINSTONE’S where all developing and printing is done on the premises. We do not get outside dealers to finish your snaps. WINSTONE’S (HEMISTS. IT IS WORTH REMEMBERING THAT— Zauschneria Californica. This useful plant is seldom seen fn our gardens, and rarely advertised in trade catalogues. IL is commonly called Californian fuchsia, although not a fuchsia. There are few more brilliant flowers with tubular blooms, and should be in every garden, especially in a large pocket on rockery. It requires sandy loam, in sunny, well drained position, flowering profusely in autumn. The plants die down in winter, when all old foliage should be cut away. One good plant will divide into a dozen in twelve months, so method of propagation is quite simple. What Mulching Really Is. The application of a mulch of manure or decayed rubbish to the flower beds or vegetable plot may be harmful if applied at the wrong time. The enthusiastic beginner should be careful not to apply any surface mulches until the soil temperature has been raised sufficiently, unless he has some special reason tor retarding the first vigorous spring growth. The process of “nitrification” cannot be carried on without the oxygen of the air. If the oxygen is excluded by a thick blanket of mulch or manure, a. denitrification process commences, in which the bacteria use up tne existing nitrates in the soil and the plant is deprived of food. The object of a mulch should primarily be to protect delicate fibrous roots of fruits, flowers and vegetables from the deleterious effects of drought by keeping t them well supplied with moisture from below. It thus becomes most beneficial if applied before the hot, dry summer weather sets in.