WEEPING WILLOWS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 1038, 19 August 1911, Page 5

WEEPING WILLOWS.

I [To The Editor.) Sir, — I notice in your issue of Thursday, quoting from a writer in the "Garden," you say that the weeping willow, which (thrives so well in this country, came from the willow tree which overhung the grave of Napoleon, at St. Helena. Well, Hobart also iboasts of .several 1 willowstrees which were grown from cuttings taken from • the famous willow , which grcAv beside the tomib of the "Little Corporal." Again, bv a coincidence, perhaps, the year 1840, in 'Which you say Her Majesty's ship "Britomarto" cast anchor in ,-the harbour <tf Akaroa, for the purpose l of proclaiming the Queen's Sovereignty over the Southern islands of Mew | Zealand, and thus forestalling a sirmi ilar French errand by a few day®, was the year Napoleon's remains were transferred from St. Helena, and interred in the church of' the Invalides, with a pomp and splendour which have no parallel. It may not' be generally known that it was Josrephine Beauharnaiß, afterwards the • \yife pf who introduced thecamellia'to Franee after her return fronr tbe West to whom ; we are all indefcited fj&r tbat beautifut' ... I I am, etc., j . ; 1 J. A. WALSH, j Pahiatua, I 17th August, 1911. i