CABBAGE TREE
FLOURISHING IN SKYE. LONDON Aug. 19. New Zealalnders who visit Ord, in the Isle of Skye, Scotland, may be excused if they rub their eyes for a moment. and imagine that they, are back in their own country. For there grows here a sturdy cabbage tree, which keeps the. New Zealand seasons and casts its leaves during the English summer.
Just how it came to flourish on Scottish soil was learned by a Mr. W. E. Ball, of West Wickham, Kent, when he was on holiday recently. Nearly 100 years ago Colonel lan MacDonald assisted his gardener’s son to migrate to New Zealand, and the young man in token of gratitude, sent hack to the colonel some cabbage tree seeds. They were planted immediately, and to-day they flourish as stongly as any of their type in the Dominion. Colonel MacDonald’s daughter married Alexander Smith, who wrote the classic “A Summer in Skye.”
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Greymouth Evening Star, 20 September 1938, Page 4
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