Gardener's Return
AFTER an absence of several years, = Mrs. R. A. Laurie, whose gardening talks in Mavis McAra’s Countrywomen’s Magazine remained a pleasant memory, has made a most welcome reappearance in the 4YA Topics for Women session. Mrs. "Laurie clearly knows her onions, and the vigour and authority of her delivery of advice is such that the hypnotised listener tends to find himself leaning on his hoe at the- door, ready to spring into action at the closing syllable. Her information is always practical, simple enough for the tyro to grasp at once, yet never too elementary to be interesting; and the reminiscences which garnish her narrative would amuse even the flat-dweller possessing only a window-box. Mrs. Laurie’s talks could be enjoyed by a larger audience than that able to listen in the morning; on the other hand, the consciousness of male listeners might inhibit the speaker in her advice for the control and extension of husbands’ activities in the garden. So, as her talks at present are almost perfect, it is perhaps as well that they should he left where
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 773, 14 May 1954, Page 11
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184Gardener's Return New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 773, 14 May 1954, Page 11
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