NEW ZEALAND FLOWER
SPECIALISATION SUGGESTED
A HINT TO NURSERYMEN.
{Per United Press Association.) WELLINGTON, September 20. The possibility of a New Zealand flower being brought by cultivation to the magnificence and popularity of the daffodil was referred to by the GovernorGeneral (Lord Bledisloe) when opening the Hutt Valley Horticultural Society’s spring show to-day. . “As I look down on this exhibition of daffodils,”, said his Excellency, "I cannot help wondering at the wealth and perfection in size and colour to which what was once a simple bloom in English meadows has now been raised. Time was when the daffodil was regarded as hardly worth a place in the garden, and there may be a humble yet beautiful flower, native to your country, which is to b e found on the hillsides or in the bush, and wdiich, by similar breeding and selection, may be advanced to a standard equal to the magnificence and popularity of the daffodil. I would suggest to enterprising nurserymen that there may be New Zealand plants worthy of greater scientific development than they have yet received, and the day may cojne when we shall find not only in New Zealand gardens but also in English gardens a large number of your own native plants."
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22064, 21 September 1933, Page 10
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207NEW ZEALAND FLOWER Otago Daily Times, Issue 22064, 21 September 1933, Page 10
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