The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 73
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these districts will play an important part in the supplying of Dunedin and elsewhere with the finest samples of tomatoes (open air), dried onions, asparagus, mushroom, rhubarb, &c.
The climate is also well suited for growing and harvesting to perfection all kinds of seeds, the varieties of which are too numerous to mention here. My firm has applied to the Lands' Department for forty acres (more or less) in the Alexandra district for nursery, seed saving, and orchard purposes, and if the application is granted I will be glad at some future time to give you the result of our undertaking.
George Howden.
Dunedin,March 22, 1895.