This section is from the book "The Gardener V3", by William Thomson. Also available from Amazon: The New Organic Grower: A Master's Manual of Tools and Techniques for the Home and Market Gardener.
The following colonial advertisement will stand comparison with that of any of our home nurserymen. " Parties desirous of obtaining Fruit and Forest Trees, etc, can arrange for a supply at very moderate rates. The following are some of the principal sorts - each in great variety. Apples, Peaches, Nectarines, Pears, Cherries, Plums, Quinces, Apricots, Almonds, Oranges, Olives, Figs, Vines, Mulberries, Walnuts, Filberts, Chestnuts, Pomegranates, Pines, Cypress, Cedars, etc." Princes Street Cutting, Dunedin.
 
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