THE FIRST PEACH.
At the old settlers' reunion at Wellington this week, Archbishop Redwood told of the first peach tree grown in Nelson, and of the excitement caused by the first ripe peach his family had seen. "My father brought it inside to us," he said. "We had to make it go all round, and we each had a little bit of it. We thought it delicious. We saved the stone, and, after a few years, it grew up and gave us tons of peaches. Then the first apple came. We ate that and saved the pips, planted them, and they grew up, so after a time we had ample fruit. But there was no blights, and you all know what trouble they have caused since." Archbishop Redwood also referred to the intense heat of the Nelson plains in the early days— hotter days than ever they are now, he said. "We grew grapes in the open ai_, and they ripened perfectly. I defy anybody to do that in the same places now." The Archbishop thought that the uncultivated ground had something to do with the extra heat.
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Levin Daily Chronicle, 2 October 1917, Page 3
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