NEW ZEALAND FLORA

Otago Witness, Issue 3808, 8 March 1927, Page 68

NEW ZEALAND FLORA

- PRIZE FOR ENCOURAGEMENT. 'd -n • WELIANGTQN, March R ine 1 rime Minister brought with b:»n from England an interesting competi!;■■■• trophy—a challenge cup—the object' which is to stimulate the "cultivation <■' New Zealand plants in private "ai dThe donor is Mr Gerald W. E.° Lod • , D.L., chairman of the Lc: don, Brighton, and South and South Ceas: Railway Company, president of the Rev. English Arboricultural Society, and ' a member of the council of the Royal Horticultural Society. Upon the cup is the following inscription :—“Offered to lovers of Nature ni New Zealand to encourage the protection and cultivation of the incomparable flor-t of the Dominion by Gerald NV. E. Loder, president of .the Royal English Arboricultural Society, 1926.’’ The trophy is to be competed for on conditions to be arranged in accordar- • with the wishes of the donor. The Minister of Agriculture will be one of th' trustees of the cup, and he will have associated with him a recognised botanist, or possibly two botanists. It will rest with these to draw up the rules with regard to the competition. The cup is not to hi won outright. The main purpose of the donor is to encourage the cultivation <-? native flora alike by the private individual and by societies, botanical and others.