A GARDEN IN ARRAN.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18887, 9 December 1924, Page 11

A GARDEN IN ARRAN.

PLANTS FROM NEW ZEALAND.

WHERE CABBAGE TREES THRIVE.

A charming picture of New Zealand cabbage trees and other trees of the Southem Hemisphere, is reproduced in the Graphic. It represents a garden in the northern isle of Arran. The letterpress beneath the picture is inaccurate in some respects, but at least it indicates what can be grown on the shores washed by the Gulf Stream.

"London has had its tropical • spell in October," it is said, " but many people will be surprised to learn that there are some little tropical Gardens of Eden so far north, as the Isle of Arran. The climate there is of such a mild and salubrious nature that the late Rev. Dr. David Landsborough, of Kilmarnock, thought it a likely place to sow some seeds which his brothers had sent to him from Australia and New Zealand. There were comparatively few failures in his experiments, and, as the photo shows, there are now some fine specimens of Australian paints (Cordyline australis), which have s-lood the test of the years. The place is Whitefarland, Arran. " Another very fine collection is at ' Cromla.' Corrie" the manse of the Rev. James Brown. Besides the Australian variety of palm tree, there are eucalyptus, the bush fern of Australia, the Chusan fan palm, several varieties of camellia, and a host of other plants one suallv expects to see in greenhouses; but here, strange to say, they thrive in the open air without protection."