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New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 117, 19 September 1941, Page 46

_ Well, now, can any of George’s contemporaries help him? I don’t think it is possible, because many fruits do alter a little as years go by, owing to changes in soil, and climate, as»well as to developments in the plant or tree, You know how apple trees have changed in the last ten years. Some of the old popular varieties, the Irish Peach, for instance, seein to have petered out, and new kinds have evolved and taken their places. Flowers alter too, and some even disappear. There used to be plenty of musk plants, sweet smelling, and with a little yellow flower, but now we never see them at all. Geraniums, too, used to grow everywhere, almost wild, large and: beautiful; while now they are far more in the ‘hot-house class, and rare, An expert gardener tells me that the best thing for "George" to do is to save the seeds of any cape gooseberries he comes across, which seem to be apptoximately the kind he remembers; and dry them in the sun, on a sheet of paper. He said he used to buy cases of any specially good ones, shell them, crush them through the rollers of an old mangle, then wash the pulp through several waters, till only the seeds remained; afterwards drying them as above. c