CORRESPONDENCE.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLI, Issue 10, 2 September 1908, Page 40

CORRESPONDENCE.

Mr. <?. W. Adams. Hutt.—lt is quite likely that the Keepsake gooseberry has not yet been imported into the Dominion. It is a new variety, and was introduced by Messrs. Richard Smith and Co., Worcester. England. We think that by next season it will be available. If you give anv enterprising nursery firm the name of the introducers, we are certain they will have some bushes imported, and be able to fill orders for next year’s planting. Many photographs have been published to show the spread of the pretty water Hyacinth, the Pontederia crassipes which some enthusiast, who is content to remain in obscurity, imported from South America into Florida some years ago. The plant has so taken possession of the waterways of Texas, Lousiana and Florida, as seriously to impede navigation. A search is being made for some natural enemy of the flower. A parasitic fungoid growth is known to exist which attacks the Hyacinth leaves from below, forming concentric circles and at last killing them.. It is at present the subject of investigation.