GRIFFEN AND SMITH'S SEED DEPARTMENT.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 15 July 1901, Page 2

GRIFFEN AND SMITH'S SEED DEPARTMENT.

The kitchen garden is an indispensable adjunct to our residences, and the lawn with its velvety carpet and graceful shrubs, will always be more attractive but the ground from which is drawn the daily supply of vegetables, is not only a source of economy, but affords in its practical cultivation a health giving and delightfully interesting employment. And then vegetables grown in one's own place always have a more delicate flavour than those obtained elsewhere. This is invariably the amateur's experience. Therefore, it behoves us now the season of the year is approaching, to prepare for the realisation of our well stocked kitchen garden. First of all the soil as a necessity must be properly turned over and manured, and then at a later period (lie seeds planted. Many a person who has spent considerable time over his preparations, finds alas when maturity should be expected that he has labored in vain. His misfortune lie naturally attributes to the inferior seed sown, and as it is alone by experience we are taught practical lessons, his future garden operations as far as the seed is concerned is attended with success as he takes every care that an inferior seed is not again sown. In this issue Griffen and Smith, the leading seed merchants of the Coast, advertise the arrival of all their new season's seed. The firm through their long experience and careful study of tliis branch of their business, have naturally gained the public confidence, and thus the attendant success of each year's gradually extended quantities of seed sent out. To all who purpose any kind of planting or sowing this year, we would advise to purchase from this firm, as the consummation of their object will be materially helped by whatever procured.