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New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 82, 17 January 1941, Unnumbered Page

Millions of Blossoms. Vegetables and Fruits. grown without soil by the marvel of HYDROPONICS The Easy Way of Gardening The limitations of physical strength, garden space and climate need no longer deter any garden enthusiast from growing exquisite flowers and crisp vege- tables at any season of the year: Intensive scientific research has proved the practicability of GARDENING WITHOUT SOIL: By the use of simple apparatus, tanks or crocks, and the scientifically-balanced chemical solution; almost any plant can be easily grown to luxurious growth in small space a yard, verandah, etc. The possibilities are endless. We read of grain grown on trays, in the first thousand-dollar radish; as it was SAND OR GRAVEL CULTURE Snapdragons (Antirrhinums raised com cabinets, fed on mineral salts, with con- called by incredulous guests, to the chef The sand culture method includes any mercially in gravel at West Chicago, Illinois: trolled temperature and light; producing in of the Airways Inn. Another month and system that uses inert ma terial to anchor It is not, of course; essential to provide ten days fodder on one square foot to feed he had lettuce, cucumbers and carrots for the plants, whether it 'is sand, gravel; such cover as indicated here, which is to 8 dairy Cow for a dayl Of prize quality them. At four months his tomato crop pumice cr cinders, and through which the give greater perfection for commercee blossoms carnations, roses hydrangeas, came in. At the end of six months, an nutrient solution i8 applied to the surface etc grown in an unbelievabiy short space executive of the company out of curiosity and permitted to seep through as a food of time to fawless beauty of strawberries radioed to ask what crops the garden had supply Cinders have proved exceptionally Jn mid winter; of 201b. of tomatoes from produced that week Back came the mes good. Apparently there are certain minute dozens 'of tanks in the main display, plus one vine grown in a small crock; of the sage, 'From one hundred and twenty square quantities of materials in cinders which all the row along the outer fence: So that ease with which cuttings and seeds are feet of garden we picked this week thirty- are beneficial to most plants. the cost is negligible: The method of join- grown; of agricultural importance to the three pounds of tomatoes, twenty heads of CONSTANT DRIP SYSTEM ing the Institute, and 80 gaining the advan- farmer too, this scientific feeding of plants, Jettuce; twenty pounds of string beans, The constant drip system also is one tage offered by bulk buying of chemicals, in the avoiding of sick soil" and animal fifteen pounds of squash; forty-four pounds which should appeal to the beginner. It is literature, equipment; s as follows 8 diseases, and So, too, ultimately affecting of corn: very efficient because, a8 the solution fows Accept ore of the etoilowing offers to the health of man. The story of Hydroponics i8 a fascinat- through the medium, it dra wS fresh air further your interest in Hydroponics ing one: It has long been used with increas after it: I/ = stamps, P.O or cash brings you illus- THE THOUSAND-DOLLAR RADISH ing success in other countries, particularly Sand of a gauge between one-sixteenth trated magazine, 'Hydroponics, packed On the low-lying and lonely Wake Island America. The formation of the Hydroponics and one quarter inch grains is most with all the Flatest news from members and Pan American Airways faced a unique Institute has enabled it to be offered to suitable: If the only sand available 'is that overseas authorities. problem of finding fresh vegetables for the New Zealanders with the assurance that derived from limestone, it would be better 10/6 enrols you 49 an Associate Member Airways Inn, which provides meals for adequate supplies of chemicals, etc: , will be to use cinders. and entitles you to the comprehensive travellers, the company 8 staff and for out- always available: NO MIXING OF CHEMICALS NEEDED Manual Study Guide, including plans and bound 'planes Wake is a coral isle; whose The chemical nutrient is supplied in diagrams of suitable tanks; the quarterly sands are of too recent vintage to have Its membership in New Zealand now mixed form- AlI that is necessary is to publication 'Hydroponics for one years nutrients sufficient for vegetables or totals over 2000, and includes well-known dissolve it in the quantities advised and mineral salts for 50 gallons of nutrient fowers: farmers, gardeners, nurserymen and hobby- use as directed for either tank, sand gravel, solution: All the fresh water available is that ists, enthusiastically enjoying the opportu- cinders or drip culture ~according to the 21/ enrols you as 8 Life Member and caught on roofs and stored in cisterns. On nity that the Institute offers them to develop method the gardener finds most convenient entitles you to all necessary supplies for Midway, where the Pacific Cable Company this splendid study. for his special conditions. full 12 months; with privilege of 'obtaining has maintained a station for half a century, Demonstrations given at the Centennial NOT AN EXPENSIVE future supplies at cost: every supply vessel has brought a shipment Exhibition created intense interest ~straw- HYDROPONICS SYODY Life Members receive free on enrolment: of soil each month for fifty years, and thus berries were grown to luscious perfection The running cost may be gauged by the I. Minerals for 25-gallon tank for 12 8 sizeable truck garden was slowiy built_ of colour and flavour, tomatoes were en- fact that the whole Hydroponic at months supply But Midway hag the wa ter which Wake viously eyed and many plants of all kinds the Centennial Exhibition averaged edisplay , per 2. Comprehensive Manual; including plans lacks, and the Pan-American supply ship were grown within a few weeks, and under for minerals; thus feeding all the and 'diagrams of suitable tanks comes but twice each year: A Hydroponics difficult conditions. week 3.The quarterly publication Hydro- garden appeared the one and only answer, ponics for first year: and that 8 how come Doctor Gericke" 8 first Nurserymen and market gardeners are 4. A liberal supply of sundrie8, fbre; soilless desert farm is on an island in the helping other members with their know- wood wool etc: middle of the ocean: ledge. and are finding many practical uses 5. Free 5-gallon tank; complete with wire Within two months after he set foot on for soilless culture, particularly in raising tray, all ready for use Wake: enthusiastic Mr. Laumeister delivered seedlings and out-of-season produce FILL IN TAIS CoUPoN To the Secretary, HYDROPONICS INSTITUTE, Dept: L, Po Box 632, WELLINGTON: Radishes 1 Grown in fairly large gravel and no soil I enclose herewith:. whatsoever. The pebbles For Please rush information and supplies to are sufficiently large to Send allow the nutrient solu- tion to percolate freely ILLUSTRAtED) through the roots and eventually i n t 0 the catchment area: Magazine Printed at the registered office of WILSON & HoRTON LTD-, 149 Queen Street; Auckland, by Albert Dennison; 75a Arney Road, Remuera, and published for the National Broadcasting Service; at 115 Lambton Quay, Wellington; by 8. R Evison, Tirohanga Road; Lower Hutt Jaquary 17, 1941.