Early Christchurch
Sir, —May I, in fairness to Mrs France, correct an oversight in my letter questioning her assertion that Dr. Barker planted the first bluegum in Christchurch? Although the report of William Wilson’s lecture in “The Press” of October 11, 1864. made no reference to Dr Barker, the fuller report in the “Southern Provinces Almanac” of 1865 states: “To Dr. Earle, of the Grange, and Dr. Barker, of Christchurch, jointly, are fairly due the
credit of first raising and proving in Canterbury the exceeding value and rapid growth of the bluegum. Dr. Earle’s plant, which was first in point of time, by a month or two only, was first obtained in a very peculiar manner. He had bought from me some Van Dieman’s Land onion seed, among the young plants from which there appeared a young plant supposed to be an English honeysuckle.” This stranger proved to be a bluegum.— Yours, etc., R. C. LAMB. April 6, 1966.
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Press, Volume CV, Issue 31029, 7 April 1966, Page 16
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