THE FLOWER GARDEN:

Te Ao Hou, December 1956, Page 47

THE FLOWER GARDEN: The planting of all varieties of bulbs should be completed by the end of February, and in the warmer districts planting of Iceland Poppy and Stocks can be set out during March. If the weather is warm and dry as it usually is at this time of the year, ample quantities of water will be necessary for the establishment of the young and tender plants. Always give the flower garden a plentiful supply of phosphates in the form of super phosphates or bone dust. If roses and other flower plants are at all troubled with aphids, one or two sprayings of nicotine sulphate should eradicate these leaf chewing insects from the plants. Ranunculas and Anemones will give a most colourful display during a period when flowers are invariably in short supply. * * * The election of a nine-man management committee representing Maori owners of the land on which Mangakino Township stands has been confirmed by Judge Pritchard in the Maori Land Court, Rotorua. This has now cleared the way for negotiations between the Maori people concerned and the Ministry of Works over return of the land to the Maori owners, once hydro-electric development is completed, and over the future of Mangakino itself. One of the objects of the owners is to preserve, develop and extend Mangakino.