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Newspaper
Forbes Advocate
Location
Forbes, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Mar 31, 1939
Page
9
An expansive meditation on gardening emphasizes collective effort to beautify yards and streets. It praises gardeners in Australia and compares pride to English standards, urging careful planning, thoughtful plant selection, spacing, and mature specimen planning to achieve balanced, lasting landscape effects.
A colonial pamphlet style ad offers Ranunculus and Anemone bulbs in mixed colors for spring planting. Instructions advise planting two inches deep with space apart and warn against fresh manure. Remittance options include three shillings for the Ranunculus Parcel and blank counts for the Anemone Parcel, posted free from Shepherd & Son Pty Ltd, Sydney.
The article discusses cultivating mixed foliage and flowering perennials suitable for Australia’s climate, with interspersed herbaceous beds that regrow each spring. It notes planting next month to beautify homes and recommends ornamental shrubs and Kohlrabi though warns it contrasts with other greens in flavor and offers a cooking method to prepare Kohlrabi by slicing, soaking, steaming, and frying the pieces.
The Pormery and Grasisey Co-operative Co. Ltd reports a catalogue of 5914 bales largely from New England Armidale Arowell Clean Times Watcha and Guyra with South and Western Tableland clips. Rockvale and Camperdown New England lines from Armidale district were superfine, good length and attractive. The sale saw strong demand with competition from Yorkshire Goulinett and Japanese buyers, and prices rose into the close as buyers showed sustained interest in superfine and long-staple lots.
A fragment urges Forbes residents to spend money locally before leaving the city. It advises checking the town, and suggests buying the article at a local store to benefit friends and neighbors.
The article explains Koh Rabi growth steps in light soil with a shallow cover, thinning to leave space between plants, and moving to avoid bulb damage. Bulbs reach about two inches, yielding tender texture. overgrowth leads to toughness and stringiness. The greens are edible like spinach.
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