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No 127 : January 28, 1965

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Outstanding Cactus Season

Presumably due to the mild weather conditions experienced in Gisborne during the spring and early summer, cactus plants in the city produced a bumper crop of beautiful blooms immediately prior to Christmas.

"Photo News" was swamped with reports from proud gardeners of their cactii flowering for the first time, and in abundance.

On this page we picture some of the many blooms.

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A perfect sample of the beautiful cactus flower, a delicate yellow in colour. The blooms generally appeared overnight, and lasted for little more than a day.

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This cactus in the garden of Mrs J. Grant, 199 Rutene Road, flowered for the first time. Admiring the bloom is Miss Rosemary Richards.

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17-months-old Andrew Bell, son of Mr and Mrs Colin Bell, 22 Oswald Street, found interest in this all-time record crop of 11 flowers.

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Mrs L. E. Williams, 512 Palmerston Road, with her two cactii which produced ten flowers between them.

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