"Ask Aunt Daisy"
Dear Aunt Daisy, All right, I will! As one of the more or less superfluous sex, I wonder if I might implore you to ask some of your more mature correspondents if they can tell me where to get hold of a pinch of the variety of cape gooseberry seeds which we always sowed ten to twenty years ago. The fruit was smaller than that grown from the seeds which we get in the sixpenny packets nowadays; but it was a prolific cropper, and very early, all ripening at once like a field of wheat in January; and though it was a heart-breaking job to sit down to take the outer garments off a kerosene tin full of them, the resulting jam was well worth the labour. The present race of seedsmen don’t seem to be able to supply these cape gooseberries; though they used to grow wild in some parts of the North Island, I'd like to give them another flutter this year, if I can get some; and would save some of the seed for
future years.
George
(Ohura).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 117, 19 September 1941, Page 46
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184"Ask Aunt Daisy" New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 117, 19 September 1941, Page 46
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