HOW DOES YOUR GARDEN GROW?
THE NEW. ZEALAND GARDEN DICTIONARY. By J. W. Matthews, F.L.S. Price 6/-; and WARTIME GARDENING IN NEW ZEALAND. By W. Philip Carman. Price 1/-. Both published by A. H. and A. W. Reed. ARTIME scarcity ard the high price of vegetables have _ sent thousands of New Zealanders back to the land-even if it is only a small plot in the back garden. To dig and delve has become both a patriotic duty and a practical method of saving money, and to those whose gardens are inclined to grow "quite contrary," as well as to those with more experience who want to get greater variety and output from their soil, these books of reference are rocommended. Wartime Gardening does not pretend to tell you about everything you can grow in a vegetable garden: its purpose is to compress into 30 pages as much information as possible about making the most of limited time and space. With its 200 pages, its charts of manures and fertilisers, lists of insects, pests, blights and spray treatments, and its alphabetical array of flowers, plants, \¥ _etables and fruits the Garden Dictionary is vastly more comprehensive. It will probably amaze some amateurs to discover that so many different things to eat, smell, or simply look at can be produced by putting- ceeds in the soil of New Zealand. And if you study page 54, you will even discover which -vegetable (mushrooms, 1 hour 20 mins.); and which fruit (bananas, 1 hour 45 min.); is the quickest to digest, and which is the slowest (cucumber, 4 hours 45 mins.; fig seeds, never).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 8, Issue 204, 21 May 1943, Page 15
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269HOW DOES YOUR GARDEN GROW? New Zealand Listener, Volume 8, Issue 204, 21 May 1943, Page 15
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