IN YOUR GARDEN
Planting by
The Moon
O you observe the moon the eve before planting out your seed? Perhaps you should. At least the idea seems worth considering since so many dependable gardeners swear by the results. Whether or not it is superstition or natural law, the Maoris way up in the King Country could never be persuaded that seed planted during the waning of the moon could come to good. Chinese gardeners, also, insist that this is so. If it is true, then now is your time for planting, while the young moon is in the sky. When it is full you may rest from your labours and content yourself with tending your sil until the next "waxing" period. Anywhere in the cities and anywhere in the country-and I imagine, anywhere in New Zealand-we'll come upon camellia trees. At the moment they’re out. Cheerful, shining, enamel-like leaves, and stiff, yet delicate flowers. We don’t value them extraordinarily, as far as I know. I think we take them pretty much for granted. I was astonished when I was told by a visiting American the other day that in his parts they paid as much as forty pounds for a single bloom!
E.L.
D.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 1, Issue 10, 1 September 1939, Page 11
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204IN YOUR GARDEN New Zealand Listener, Volume 1, Issue 10, 1 September 1939, Page 11
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