NOW BEING STREAMLINED
FRUITS, FLOWERS AND VEGETABLES. Plants are now being streamlined. As a result finer fruits, vegetables and more beautiful flowers are being produced. Explaining these experiments, an official of the British Agricultural Research Council told a Press representative recently:— “The shape of many vegetables has been altered during recent years for the sake of beauty or to fit modern needs. “For instance, a new cucumber is being grown that is uniformly eight inches long to suit the needs of shippers. “To fit modern refrigerators smaller varieties of water-melons are being produced.” Canners and seedsmen now employ breeding experts to maintain uniformity in crops. A few outsize peas in a canning variety may affect the price of an entire delivery. Streamlined potatoes have eliminated the deep “eyes” that cause such waste of time and material in peeling. Once short, chubby roots, carrots today are long, slim objects. By careful breeding a deeper orange colour has been developed, and the core has been made more tender or practically, eliminated.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 July 1938, Page 4
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