PLEA FOR GARDENING
A plea for the use of both native and Old Country plants in New Zealand gardens was made by Lady Galway in opening the National Flower Show in Auckland Inst week. “ Gardening should be highly esteemed as a pastime, for it gives so much pleasure to the gardener and at the sametime to others,” said Lady Galway. ‘ Thus, it can well claim to be one of the arts. We are led to realise how much gardening and flower growing must have meant to the early New Zealand settlers when we see the wealth of Old Country fav ourites in the gardens. Here climate and soil are so well adapted to horticulture, and you can raise even sub tropical plants that it is impossible to grow at Home. During our one season in the Dominion I have been most impressed with the way old favourites grow, usually quite 50 per cent, better than in England, and I must confess to being quite envious. I am told that this season has not been abnormal, yet we could not hope for such results in England more than once in every four or five years.” The importance given to the raising of New Zealand native plants Lady Galway regarded as highly chmmendable. There was a place for these and also introduced plants in the gardens of the Dominion.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22831, 16 March 1936, Page 12
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