KING'S VEGETABLES
4» : COLOUR FILM TAKEN . • ■ • Wartime gardeners in Buckingham Palace grounds andl in London's ■working-class .districts are the stars of ■<& colour filrn -which has just been released. The film shows. , the; public how Viot only these gardeners, but A.R.P. workers, schoolboys, hospital pati- - onts and housewives are joining in the "Dig for Victory" campaign in Britain's 5,000,000 private gardens. It is probably the; first garden newsroe], certainly the first in. colour. A second: colour film deals with vegetable pests, -while a. third about tomato growing will help British gardeners to replace, the tomatoes usual!}* imported from, the Channel Isles. Shots of successful tomatogrowing on the roof oi' a cinema, In the yard of a public house and outside shops are shewn in this film. Lecturers are on tour with the films answering questions, put by audiences. Last year they had o(M; meetings in. large towns and small villages, where they spoke to 50,000 people.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 5, Issue 59, 29 May 1942, Page 5
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155KING'S VEGETABLES Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 5, Issue 59, 29 May 1942, Page 5
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