AN ENGLISH LETTER

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIII, Issue 73, 8 March 1933, Page 10

AN ENGLISH LETTER

LONDON IN JANUARY. A New Zealand woman writing from London on January 30th says: “Wo are getting through our winter and soon all the spring flowers will be here again. I think 1 miss our New Zealand flowers mo>e than anything else. They did seem to smell so much more fragrant thau English flowers. I would just love to get my nose into a bunch of New Zealand freesias. They are fairly rare over here and do not have much scent. Has the wild musk in N.ew Zealand still the same old strong scent f It has lost it in England and I am told it has lost it everywhere it grows. I can’t imagine our New Zealand musk, which used to be so strong, having no scent at all. “The first spring bulbs appeared in the shops just before Christmas and they are very cheap and plentiful now, but. of course, they all come from the South of France and the Scilly Isles. “We are having dreadfully cold weather at present, but it was very mild a; Christmas time and early January. There has been lots of snow but not in London yet. London is in the grip of influenza at present and several of our friends have had it. They have had a temperature but with careful nursing have soon recovered. I hope people in New Zealand are not getting influenza also. I don’t know what our relations will do who were just leaving New Zealand to come to London for the exchange going up will hit them very hard I’m afraid.”