NATIVE PLANTS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18591, 27 June 1922, Page 2

NATIVE PLANTS.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —A report in Saturday’s issue of a meeting of the Field Naturalists’ Club, Dunedin., shows that Mr Martin, referring to the history of Heliohrysum Purdiei. said he believed that the plant growing in the Dunedin Botanical Gardens was the only plant in the world in cultivation. I wish to contradict that statement. Some 20 odd years ago Mr B. C. Aston gave me a piece of a plant of Helichryeum Purdiei. rooted, which he found somewhere beyond Black Jade’s Point. The plant is still growing in the original garden of the late Mr G. Matthews (now Dr Hunter’s). The plant in the Botanical Gardens is a piece from it, and ; there is also another plant from the original in Mr W. A. Thomson’s collection, Halfway Bush. —I am, etc., John W. M‘lnttbe. Morning ton, Jf.vns 26.