The beautiful azaleas, lilacs, and other flowering shrubs which are such an attractive feature in plant-houses in spring are stimulated by the tonic of a winter sleep. Thus, instead of bringing them indoors in autumn, the gardener puts them against the chilly north wall, they are submitted to as low a temperature as can be risked without injury for several months. This ensures their getting a thorough rest. Indeed, they are forced into a ! deeper torpor than they would experience in the ordinary way, and afterwards express their appreciation of the rest by breaking almost spontaneously into flower as soon as they are submitted to more genial conditions.
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Taranaki Daily News, 11 March 1921, Page 6
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129Page 6 Advertisements Column 6 Taranaki Daily News, 11 March 1921, Page 6
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