HYBRID MANUKAS
BEAUTIFUL NATIVE SHRUBS
Among the coloured manukas, "Leptospermum," to give them their proper name, are some of the most beautiful of our native shrubs. L. Nicollsii, crimson manuka, is well known as a valuable garden shrub, bearing its deep crimson flowers in pro-, fusian. It grows to a height of six feet or more, and is not particular as to soil or situation. . -.•....,
IL. Ke'atleyii is!a ,new"winter-flower-ing variety, having large flowers, often larger than a. florin. The colour is pink, shading'.p'aler'towards the edge of the .petals.'.'-.''•■ '"'' 'A L. WalkeriHs "another 'Kybrfd of comparatively recent introduction. The flowers are in shades of white to deep pink, borne simultaneously. The habit of the plant is open and spreading, the plants seldom growing: to more than four feet high. \
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 124, 27 May 1937, Page 26
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128HYBRID MANUKAS Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 124, 27 May 1937, Page 26
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