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Taranaki Daily News, 16 September 1920, Page 5

To see New Zealand's native flowers thriving anil multiplying in a foreign soil seems to be a possibility somewhat remote, especially when it is considered how rarely they find a place in the cultivated garden of the Dominion. Yet this (says a London correspondent) is the suggestion which is made ill an article entitled "New Zealand Flowers for English Gardens," appearing in the current number of the Girls' Own Paper. Members of the Expeditionary Forces whose lot it was to spend a happy time at Torquay, will remember the flax and the cabbage trees along the sea. front, and visitors to Kcw, the Scilly Islands, and South Cornwall, may have swu the rare flora of New Zealand well represented there, but probably these arc the only places generally known to iho English public where the plants of the Dominion have found a foreign home and flourished. Mr. Alexander Robertson, the writer of the article, maintains that the red kowhai, the manuka, and the many varieties of veronica, the native clematic, the rata, and the host of alpine flowers might easily make a welcome addition to the gardens of (he English homes. Added interest is given to the subject by a dozen illustrations, remarkably clear in detail, and, appearing in :i permanent annual of thi-s k'nd, the article will ha,ve a ividj circle