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Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 89, 21 May 1914, Page 8

Sydney would be much more beautiful than it is if it were embowered in foliage, said Mr W. B. Griffin, the Chicago architect who is carrying out the Federal capital design, last week. Tie said that he did not want to see trees in the busy streets, but they could be planted in some of the quieter streets of the city and throughout the residential areas. They could not haVe too many of them. In New Zealand the same mistake was being made as in Australia. People were planting European trees and Australian trees. He liked Australian trees, but not in New Zealand, which had a most wonderful flora of its own, and that was what one wanted to see when one went there. These now countries were losing their original characteristic features. It was a mistake to try to repeat the Old Country flora in a new country. They should make the most of the good things of their own country.