HOMEWOOD GARDENS
BIRDS, FISH, AND FLOWERS
The next best thing: to travel in Africa, Asia, America, Australia is to see their birds and plants; aviculture and horticulture provide a key by which all can, open the door to the Continents, and -all the tropic lands. The floral wealth and the bird beauty of the world can be concentrated in one small spot, by ( an expenditure of money in glasshouses and aviaries.
I That is a tremendous fact —it opens to ■ everybody the exotic world seen only- distantly .in books and pictures, and it can ,be regarded as a great privilege! People of temperate climates are benefiting by the horticultural and avicultural enterprises both of municipal bodies and of private citizens. Prominent among the efforts of private citizens is the growing collection—in many respects unique—of birds .and begonias and other plant life: of glasshouse and fernery, at "Homewood," 50 Homewood Avenue, Karori/ the residence o;f Mr. B. Sutherland: .--y"
The period during which ."Homewood" grounds are open'to the public
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 55, 6 March 1937, Page 18
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168HOMEWOOD GARDENS Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 55, 6 March 1937, Page 18
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