"A REVELATION."

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 31, 7 February 1928, Page 8

"A REVELATION."

N.Z. ALPINE BLOOUB, DR. HILL ENTHUSIASTIC. the South Island° was e a^' t i Coast; «! Dr. A W Hill, Director of 2?& «• Though he was acquainted character and structure of Zealand plants before coming? Se * Dominion, having examinedtf, o V hs specimens at the Kew not prepared to find the some of the places he visited™ J? 00 Jt cent. u 80 Dr. Hill was surprised at r aco and beauty 0 f the f eni , i Waiho, near the Franz Josef Gk^V 1 more than anything else savs ti? b,it he values the opportunitvrfS? ? >at '" climb Aleck's Knob, about part of the Kaiser Fritz iff never previously explored W I never before had seen a of alpine plants such as-1 05 said Dr. Hill, commenting on toT*?*" that place. "We had a fairly U through the scrub. There J,! but the shrubs and trees throng" wc climbed were wet with ijand they showered cascades' was quite hard work, but the J vegetation of the alpine meadow S top amply repaid us for all OUr When we got on to that alpine nESS there was a scene of interest and which was quite a revelation. Therii!; there are particularly interesting ft European alpinist, as thev offer ing contrast, to anything we haw part of the world. All the saw on Aleck's Knob were pj jj There was not a single colour*! amongst them. Thev are exfaiSr T beautiful. The sight

"The high alpine New Zealand flnr. as seen on this mountain, is unlike a? thing else owing to the numerous phi' with white flowers, in their setting the yellowish Danthonia grass. The s i» of many of the flowers is very striki? especially the large celmisias, aS wonderful sight. All the flowers were unusually large and beautiful' . visitor was particularly interest in the prevalence of native hybrid ph2 which he saw and he paid a tribute to the v ork of Dr. A. L. Cockayne in tie discovery of natural hybrids in Z Dominion. Dr. Cockayne, h e said, hi opened a new and most important chapter 111 systematic botany. "I he said "that the younger generation with a leaning cowards science who are being trained in the university colleges of iSew Zealand will realise the value 0 f work of this nature, and will be drawn towards this line of study. It is verr valuable to Xew Zealand, and it i regarded with the deepest interest in J-.urope, England, and America. Dr C'ockayne ? s work has deservedly earned for him a world-wide reputation."