A large dried vegetable “sheep" and seeds of rare New Zealand native plants, especially Canterbury alpines, are to be forwarded to Professor Carl Skottsberg, of Gothenberg, Sweden, by Mr J. A. McPherson, curator of the Christchurch Botanic Gardens, according to advice received from Mr McPherson at a recent meeting of the executive of the Royal New Zealand Institute of Horticulture. Professor Skottsberg. who is director of the Botanic Gardens at Gothenberg, visited New Zealand last year, and while in Christchurch he opened the memorial garden to Dr Leonard Cockayne in the Botanic Gardens.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 June 1939, Page 8
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