CLEMATIS
Sir, —Further inquiry elicits the fact that the plant in the Christchurch Botanic Gardens was not cut down but died from some obscure cause. In writing of the rarity of the clematip I referred to the plains rather than to that special botanical region, the Peninsula, and my informant tells me it is common at Purau, Peraki, and bays adjacent, with a preference for manuka. As manuka is being killed rapidly along the foothills by a black sooty fungus it is unlikely that these bays will escape infection; and it would be of great value if their schools made holMay excursions next month to get ripe seed, forwarding jt to city nurserymen to grow. on. Let us retain this splendid flower, a joy to Maori and to white.—Yours, etc., JAS. R. WILKINSON. Rangiora, December 10, 1948.
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Press, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 25677, 14 December 1948, Page 7
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