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Manawatu Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 7955, 11 April 1904, Page 4

A correspondent in Waiwera, New Zealand, writes to the Weekly Scotsman that he is not surprised to hear that heather grows and thrives in Canada ; " but," he says, " why is it considered necessary to send roots with earth attached on a long sea voyage, when a few grains of seed in a letter would do as well? Borne thirty years ago the proprietor of the Brace Herald distributed heather seed among the subscribers of that newspaper. I have in my garden several bushes of heather raised from that seed. The parent bush is some twenty feet in circumference. Every year it sheds seed, and young plants grow up all round. Now, I suggest that those kind friends who every year gather heather for * Scots abroad' should gather a handful of seed, as much as would lie on a sixpence could, be sent to any who wish it, and I have no doubt that if the seed is gathered at the proper season, with a little care, heather will grow wherever vegetation exists, with the exception perhaps, of the tropics. I have never been fortunate enough to pet any of the heather sent abroad; but that does not matter, as I have plenty of my own."