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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 23, 27 January 1912, Page 3

Writing to a member of the Mataura Ensign's staff, Mr. Dolamore (who has just returned from an extended tour ol the Continent to Torquay, in Devonshire) remarks upon the universal employment of the New Zealand cabbage palm, veronicas, and flax in embellishing the European pleasure resorts. "You Bee fine specimens of the cabbage palm everywhere you go," he remarks. "In Southern. Italy and on the Italian and French Riviera they flourish cheek by jowl with the date and fan palmo^ while in the milder parts of Switzerland, where those heat-loving specimens would not endure the touch of 'frost in winter, the cabbage tree is entirely relied upon to give the semi-tropical touch to the landscape, and is extensively employed .in every stage from babyhood 1 to full stature. Where the climate is colder ■ our familiar Iriend is carefully cuddled in tubs. The New ' Zealand flas is • also largely and effectively employed by the Continental gardeners, and being .a hardy and adaptable subject has a wide range of quarters. I noticed two specimens flourishing' exceedingly in the region sacred to luturma, the nymph of the springs that rise in the Roman Forum There are no other plants about, and it would be interesting -to learn why this apeciul hospitality should have been accorded to these strangers from the Far South. Here in Torquay, and along the south-western coast of TSngland generally, New Zealand ik aieo strongly in evidence in tho gardens, and this, no doubt, adds to the reputation of our fair country, which, while usually very little known, is generally allowed to be pleasant and picturesque." For children's backing cough tt nijrbt, Wood* 1 Gnat Pepperttuii Our*, U 6d,- ' Adit, i