SEAWEEDS
"Oh, call us not Weeds, we are flowers of the sea. For lonely and bright and gay-tinted ard we, Not nursed like the plants of a summer pasture. Whose gales are the sighs of an evening air, Our exquisite, fragile and delicate forms, Are the prey of the ocean when vexed by the storms." A lady in Dunedin, having made a collection of very rare seaweeds, arranged them most artistically in beautiful groups of the delicate fronds of the red, green and ecru varieties with bright sea-shells supported by slender basket-work. These marine flowers were framed and sold to aid a public charity, realising £4O; enclosed with each was the above verse, also arranged in small baskets.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21716, 3 February 1934, Page 4 (Supplement)
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118SEAWEEDS New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21716, 3 February 1934, Page 4 (Supplement)
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