Garden Afloat
Whale butterflies have found a home among a wilderness of sweet com, paspalum, plantain, dandelion and a wide variety of different grasses, some growing more than six feet high, m two open steel barges berthed in the Weste.n Viaduct in Auckland. Both barges have a wooden floor four inches thick, about a foot above the water-filled bilges. The plants have extended roofs through cracks between the boards, into the water.
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29728, 23 January 1962, Page 12
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72Garden Afloat Press, Volume CI, Issue 29728, 23 January 1962, Page 12
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