"Gambler's Garden"
" Gambler's Garden" is a pleasant chapter for New Zealander readers, because Humphrey John has a good deal to say about the introduction of New Zealand natives. He has had happy adventures, with a defeat or two among the pittospores, the senecios and the veronicas, and is just beginning to make a do of the leptosperrus. If he has his way the Royal Horticultural Society will choose leptospermuru scoparium for distribution . . . which is rather like giving it the honour and the opportunity ot a Rhodes Scholarship. But Humphrey John is disappointed because, a century and more after Joseph Banks opened the plant life of New Zealand to English gardeners they have made only timid and lame advances in introducing and establishing examples of it. (From a review by J. H. E. Schroder of " The Skeptical Gardener" by Humphrey John. 3YA, July 23.)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 60, 16 August 1940, Page 6
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143"Gambler's Garden" New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 60, 16 August 1940, Page 6
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