. J . After nearly two years' -wanderings in Africa, Miss M. H, Mason feturned to England recently, with a collection of rnro (lowers and bulbs, and a number of Sower paintings from nature, Miss Mason was .for twenty-fivo years chief inspector of boardwtaut children under tho lx>cal Government Board, and flowerhunting is her hobby'.; "I had'to take long railway journeys; in Africa,'V she said, "and not infrequently.Vl.'had'-'the train stopped in order to seenro a flower that I wanted particularly." Tho bulbs brought home by Miss Mason are maturing at the Botanical Gardens, Cambridge, and the preserved flowers are at Kew, which will also bo tho homo ultimately of her Dainting3, '
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1646, 13 January 1913, Page 6
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109Page 6 Advertisements Column 1 Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1646, 13 January 1913, Page 6
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