THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES.
Thu Genesis ok Houticui.tuuk. Louden states that horticulture was born in remote antiquity. It had its origin in the primitive wants of man. In liis primeval state man must have lived on fruits, herbs aud .roots. By experience that different effects of these vegetable products on the body would he discovered and man learned tho use of herbs in medicine. When man began to have settled habitations, the inconvenience of having to search for the plants, which became so necessary, would lead to the collection of them in places near the dwelling, and as tho spares of ground in which they were grown must have beeu fenced to preserve them from the depredations of animals we can easily understand tho origin of gardens. Aran being an Eastern production, it follows that the fruits collected and used were also of the East. In his primeval state he did not travel, far n.nd therefore had but limited knowledge of the fruits of the earth.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/HOG19221014.2.16
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Hokitika Guardian, 14 October 1922, Page 2
Word count
Tapeke kupu
166THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES. Hokitika Guardian, 14 October 1922, Page 2
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
The Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd is the copyright owner for the Hokitika Guardian. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in