HORTICULTURAL NOTES.
THE SEASON.
_ This has been the severest winter upon flowering plants experienced for many years. Right through last winter about a dozen varieties of flowers could be gathered any day hi our Public Gardens; this season only a few spikes of Veronica Hendersoni could ba found. Lauristinus" was browned by the -frost, and Pyras-japonica, which has always shown a few blooms during winter, as only now beginning to show colour in a fe'T sheltered 1 corners. The past week has been remarkably mild, amd I notice the weeping willows and- ar few of the earlyfltwering shrubs showing symptoms of the return "of spring. The winter aconite and early snotrflakes have put forth a few blooms, reminding us in no uncertain language that winter's chain ia broken, and soon "we shall be- able to look upon our gardens and fields clothed afresh in verdure and bloom.
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Otago Witness, Volume 02, Issue 2420, 2 August 1900, Page 8
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