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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 216, 12 August 1937, Page 9

Most charming, perhaps, of all yes terday's Aibor Day ceremonies at Wellington was that at Kelburn. The Mayor Mr T. C. A. Hislop. formally opened the rhododendron dell planted bv the Wellington Beuutilying Society, and tilts Governor-General’s young soii, Hon. Simon MoncktonArundell, planted a shrub ot a variety named in honour of his mother, Ladj Galway. ' “I will tell you how this variety of rhododrendron, of which there “are six in the dell, came to be named after Lady Galway,” said Mr T Ii Y Stddon, an authority on rhododendrons. Years ago, he said, there was a wonderful garden out at Lower Unit; manv Wellington residents would cherish memories of Mason s Gardens. A particular variety of rliotlodetitlron, of a beaut iiill shell pink, was layered there, and found its way into many other gardens. Efforts had been made to find wlial was its name or origin, but nothing had been found out. and Mr Mason s grandsons could shed no light on tlie matter. Mr P Black of Palmerston North, had stated that it had probably been brought hack from some expedition to China or the Himalayas. lindlly Lady Galway admired it, and had sev eral nlantcd' in the Government House grounds. English gardeners had come interested, and sent out for it and Her Excellency had consented to allow it to be named Lady Galway.