IN PLACE OF FLOWERS
MANY THOUSANDS OF TONS OF TOMATOES. BEING GROWN IN BRITISH GLASS HOUSES. In the glass houses where roses and carnations bloomed in peace time, British flower farmers hope to nroduce this year 50,000 tons of tomatoes. They are also growing great quantities of outdoor food crops. Ono nursery alone, whose output in 1939 was entirely of cut flowers, produced last year 950 tons of tomatoes, 125,000 lettuces, 320 tons of sugar beet, 100 tons of onions and 75 tons of carrots. all from glass houses or from land previously planted with flower crops. This year 82 per cent of the nursery’s total glass area is planted with tomatoes and 80 per cent of its outdoor ground is growing food crops. Since the war, Britain’s flower industry has been controlled by horticultural cropping orders and its employees are reserved at the age of 30 only if they are engaged on food production.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 August 1942, Page 4
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155IN PLACE OF FLOWERS Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 August 1942, Page 4
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