English Vegetables
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Thrive in Torres Straits
From Our Own Correspondent
Thursday Is., Sept. 1.
THERE is a general impression that English vegetables will not grow in the north, but a visit to one of the islands adjacent to Thursday Island, in the Torres Straits group, would dispel that idea.
At St. Paul’s, Moa, the other day, the writer was shown fine specimens of cabbage, firm-hearted and large, which would do credit to any southern garden, and beans in several varieties, tomatoes, carrots, beetroot, lettuce, en dive, etc., were all thriving well. Cer tainly the making of a garden entails a good deal of effort and careful atten tion, but the benefit of being able to have fresh vegetables more than com pensates.
Mr. W. Turnbull, of Hicks Island, on the east coast of Cape York Penin sula, is another who has had good suc cess with his gardening operations, even to the production of English po tatoes. He has grown some remarkably fine tomatoes.
Lately, experimenting with the paw paw, he turned out quite a decent white wine; but some few days after wards discovered that it had become transformed into vinegar of good, sharp flavour. Whether it would have com mercial possibilities has not yet been tried, but there would seem to be an opening in that direction.