Seeds

Date: 1908 - 1912

From: [Ephemera, sales catalogues, and advertising for retail firms, traders, shops and stores. 1900-1910]

By: Robert Rew (Firm); Abel, Dykes Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-RETAIL-1910-03

Description: Mail order catalogue for the Country Order department of a retail store in Auckland. Merchandise is listed in the following categories: grocery, provisions, patent medicines, toilet requisites, stationery, ironmongery, rattan bamboo & rush furniture, china glassware and crockery, Japanese (mainly tableware), boots and shoes, woven wire mattresses, flax and kapok mattresses, manures, agricultural seeds, garden and vegetable seeds, separators, children's page (with confectionery and Christmas stockings) Other Titles - Three Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 56 pages, 248 x 155 mm.

Date: 13, 19 Nov 2007 - 13 Nov 2007 - 19 Nov 2007

From: Methven Heritage Project - RSA and Arable oral history project

By: Early, Frederic Wells, 1926-2009

Reference: OHInt-0920-03

Description: Interview with Fred Early. Born in 1926, Ashburton. Talks about paternal great grandfather Samuel Early emigrating in 1860 and his grandfather Charles Early who bought Greendale farm in 1876. Discusses his father Leslie John (Les) Early, mother Rosetta Mildred (Rose) Early (nee Wells), and his siblings Athene, Eric, Lawrie, Phyllis, Annie and Ivan. Educated at Greendale primary school and Christchurch Boys High School. Recalls going to school in governess cart and railways bus, and using slate boards. Talks about living on Greendale farm, and Waterford farm as child. Discusses changes in Selwyn and Hororata rivers and why the rivers are more frequently dry now. Details arable farming as growing wheat, barley, lucerne crops, plus using Clydesdale horses, traction engine, wooden mill, chaff cutter, and cross engine chase tractor. Refers to his father being in cavalry in World War One, surviving Gallipoli, and buying Alford Forest farm in 1919 when rehabiliatated after WW1. Mentions not selling wool during the Depression. Talks about father and his brothers owning Te Pirita 3000 farm block, south of Hororata river. Mentions Americans funding secret building of Te Pirita airfield in 1942 by local contractors to cater for American bombers when Japanese invasion looked imminent. Says left school at 16. Refers to being part of food production effort to support England during World War Two, such as exporting lambs. Describes wheat harvest using Massey Harris header and sewing sacks. Compares rail and truck transport. Talks about shearing, cultivation work, stock work, fencing and the merino run block 'The Plains'. Mentions shortage of petrol and tyres. Refers to purchasing Alford Forest farm from his father after his marriage in 1953 to Miriel (Joan) Ridgen, running it for 12 years. Describes developing more intensive farming methods, breeding Romney sheep, running beef cattle, dabbling in small seeds and new grasses. Refers to Pyne Gould Guinness as his banker. Discusses shifting to new farm Lyndhurst in 1966 where he ran Corriedale, then Borderdale and Border sheep. Refers to sticking with wheat, barley, then growing triticali, oats, peas, white clover and grass seed. Comments on lack of irrigation, impact of dry nor'west wind, stoney soil, and importance of tree shelter belts. Mentions heavy snows in Methven area. Details methods of improving soil fertility, using nitrogen, superphosphate, lime, and growing lupins. Talks about start of bulk harvesting in early 1970s meant changing to storing grain in silos. Refers to agricultural spraying, using Roundup to deal with Twitch. Explains impact of 1972-1973 purchase allowance and the removal of farm subsidies in late 1980s. Mentions hardship during 1980s South Island East Coast drought. Talks about roles his wife and children played on the farm. Refers to participating in school committees and Methodist church. Says he shifted to Ashburton with wife in 1997. Reflects on technology changes and hopes that small farmer is not being squeezed out by corporate farms. Interviewer(s) - Nicola Robertson Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-016735 - OHC-016738 Quantity: 4 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 2 Electronic document(s). 1 interview(s). 4 Hours Duration. Physical Description: Textual files - Adobe PDF Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-6025; OHDL-001820. Search dates: 1926 - 2007

Date: 2010

From: Egmont Seeds Ltd :[Catalogues. 2003- ]

By: Egmont Seed Company Ltd

Reference: Eph-B-HORTICULTURE-Egmont-2010-01

Description: Booklet lists and shows photographs of every variety of vegetable and flower seed available. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 72 pages, 297 x 210 mm.

Date: 1958

From: Teach and Test Publications: [Five biology wall charts]. 1958

By: Unity Press Ltd

Reference: Eph-H-SCIENCE-1958-02

Description: Chart shows at top left the external and internal structure of the pea seed. At lower left are three illustrations of the germination process and at right is a seedling with roots, stalk and leaves. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph, 720 x 1020 mm, wooden batons top and bottom

Date: 1985

From: [Ephemera of quarto size relating to cinemas, movies, films and film screenings in New Zealand]

By: Pacific Films Ltd

Reference: Eph-B-CINEMA-1985-01

Description: Flier promoting a feature length documentary film concerning responsibility for crop plant genetic resources. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset print on flier, 297 x 210 mm.

Date: May 1996

From: Hodgson, Trace, 1958-: [20 original political and social cartoons, drawn for Metro magazine ca 1995-2001].

By: Hodgson, Trace, 1958-

Reference: C-185-015

Description: Six panel comic in which two scientists discover a pouch of seeds on a 3000 year old frozen body. One of the scientists plants the seeds and in the final scene he is seen, as an old man, admiring the trees that have grown from them. The trees are shaped liked hands - one open, the other a fist. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - HODGSON; Verso - centre - [Contains various notes made by the artist, including shopping lists and phone messages. Also features a sketch of a flower pattern, probably pohutakawa.] Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and coloured pencil on paper. 420 x 600mm.

Date: 1940 - 1942

By: Arthur Yates & Company Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-HORTICULTURE-Yates-1940/1942

Description: Includes: 1940: Yates' 1940 spring farm catalogue. better manures - right topdressing - healthier stock - less worry 1941: Yates' farm seed & manures, Autumn 1941 Yates' tulips are so much better! February 1941 Yates' 1941 garden spring calendar 1942: If you can't fight, don't be a drone and a drag on others ... food and vegetables are important munitions of war. Pamphlet [1942] Quantity: 5 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklets, sizes varying around 250 mm. Provenance: Some items purchased from Edward Mosig, antiquarian bookseller, Queensland, in 2013.

Date: 1960 - 1969

By: Arthur Yates & Company Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-HORTICULTURE-Yates-1960s

Description: Includes: ca 1960: Arthur Yates & Co Ltd. On the Spot sends you greetings and best wishes for Christmas and the New Year. Shopping list for December [Folded pamphlet] Yates Vita-Pak vegetable growers guide. [Catalogue. ca 1960] 1960: Yates trade list. September 1960 1961: Yates 1961 vegtable seed varieties [Catalogue] Yates Reliable Seeds. Wholesale flower seed price list. Delivery 1961 Yates Reliable Seeds. Contract vegetable seed price list. Delivery 1961 1965: Yates vegetable seeds for commercial growers 1965. Vita-Pak dry conditioned seed in moisture proof containers 1966: Yates vegetable seeds for commercial growers 1966. Vita-Pak dry conditioned seed in moisture proof containers 1966? Mr Retailer! Make your cash register ring this Spring! Yates new pre-packed chrysanthemums & cushion 'mums. [Pamphlet ca 1966?] Quantity: 1 folder(s) 7 album(s); 2 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Booklets, sizes varying around 250 mm. Provenance: Most items donated by by A M Hale in 2005, from the collection of Norman Brayshaw.

Date: 1924 - 1925

By: Wrightson Ltd

Reference: Eph-B-HORTICULTURE-1924-01

Description: Illustrated mail order catalogue, with black and white photographs and illustrations and colour photolithographs of a selection of pasture grasses, clovers, mangels, swedes and turnips. Text promotes Garton's seeds. Also includes pages discussing lime, fertiliser, superphosphate, and manures. There are pages about sheep dips, horse and cow covers, egg incubators, sheep dips, and a method for taking hides and skins off carcasses. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 56 pages, 280 x 215 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Christchurch Book Auction sale in February 2011.

Date: 1844

From: Mantell, Gideon Algernon, 1790-1852 :[Geological and zoological illustrations]. 1824-1851

By: Agassiz, Jean Louis Rodolphe, 1807-1873

Reference: E-210-q-028-2

Description: Drawings of three unidentified fossil cones Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 168 x 120 mm

Date: 1835 - 1849

From: Mantell, Gideon Algernon, 1790-1852 :[Geological and zoological illustrations]. 1824-1851

By: Dinkel, Joseph J, active 1830s-1860s

Reference: E-210-q-029-2

Description: Drawing of two fir cones and a cross-section Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 182 x 115 mm

Date: 1835 - 1849

From: Mantell, Gideon Algernon, 1790-1852 :[Geological and zoological illustrations]. 1824-1851

By: Dinkel, Joseph J, active 1830s-1860s

Reference: E-210-q-028-1

Description: Compare with E-210-q-027 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, 146 x 162 mm

Date: 1943

From: [Ephemera of octavo size promoting the publication of books and new book titles]

Reference: Eph-A-BOOK-1943-01-packet

Description: Shows an illustration of three parsnips. Extended Title - From pocket of "Poppa passes" promotional pamphlet, 1943. Quantity: 1 packet. Physical Description: Offset print on seed packet 92 x 57 mm.

Date: 1937 - 1938

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to agriculture, farms and farming]

By: New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company; Dalgety New Zealand Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-FARM-1938-01

Description: Prices for grain, stock foods, general products, fencing wire, iron, general sundries, shears, ploughs, "Hinemoa" mix fertilisers, grass seeds, root and fodder seeds, "Hinemoa" pig food. Some issues advertise the "New Kiwi" shearing machine. Seasonal specials for September 1938 include the Picard emasculator, Mowat tailing instrument, Dokko, Stockholm tar, electric fence control, bluestone, "Black Leaf 40" nicotine bluestone worm drench. Quantity: 6 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Six booklets, each 225 x 144 mm. Provenance: Donated by Dalgety NZ Ltd in 1977.

Date: 1835 - 1849

From: Mantell, Gideon Algernon, 1790-1852 :[Geological and zoological illustrations]. 1824-1851

By: Dinkel, Joseph J, active 1830s-1860s

Reference: E-210-q-027

Description: Drawing of a cone, and seed (viewed from two angles) Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink and wash, 130 x 204 mm

Date: 2009

From: [Ephemera of quarto size relating to agriculture, farms and farming]

By: PGG Wrightson Ltd

Reference: Eph-B-FARM-2009-01

Description: Catalogue of pasture grass seeds including ryegrass, fescue, white clover, cocksfoot, chicory, lucerne, pasture mixes. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 43 pages, 297 x 212 mm.

Date: 2005

From: Tremain, Garrick, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Otago Daily Times]

Reference: DCDL-0000071

Description: The scene shows the leader of New Zealand First, Winston Peters, with a large bag full of seeds strapped round his waist; the bag is labelled 'xenophobia'. In a somewhat bucolic setting Winston Peters is sowing the seeds in furrows which are labelled 'voters'. Refers to Winston Peters' stirring of the anti-immigration and race pot by highlighting the possibilities of terrorists being able to enter New Zealand and also by suggesting that New Zealand is not attracting the right sort of immigrant, that is, one with skills and money. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).