Rivalry-between the daffodil and the tulip was referred to by Mr W. Balch in an address to thK Canterbury Horticultural Society (says the Lyttelton Times). He said that the daffodil need not fear the tulip’s competition in New Zealand. The tulip did not grow very well here/but. if it did, fie doubted if it would take the daffodil’s place. The tulip had to take second place to the daffodil even in England. The daffodil was a very beautiful flower, which increased in a person’s affection the more it was cultivated. The subject of the address was the cultivation and cross-fertilisation or the narcissus. Mr Balch said that narcissus was the family name, and embraced all the forms, while the word “ daffodil ” was more correctly applied to the trumpets and to forms with the longer cups. “The amount of pleasure you get out of raising daffodils is enormous,” he said. “It preserves health and prolongs life, and it.is one of the most fascinating pursuits I know of. It takes up no time. The daffodils grow while you wait, as with the sheep farmer and the wool on a sheep’s back. Y"ou will have many disappointments, but you are assured of great joy, and there is a chance that you will get something really good, and, perhaps, make a small fortune.”
A lady resident of Auckland returned from a first sojourn enthuses about Sydney, and the unusually invigorating clime .'of that part of the Commonwealth (says an exchange). But she offered some reservations. “I' noticed, however, that once you get out of Sydney, where everything seems to be concentrated, there is precious little for a New Zealander to get excited about.” She added that the New South Wales country towns were not impressive, and some of the structures they called homes over there would be regarded here as little more than shacks. “ Really,”..she concluded, “when you have seen Sydney and its back country, one is helped to realise what a wonderfully developed place is New Zealand, with its comparatively small population.” x
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Otago Witness, Issue 3889, 25 September 1928, Page 37
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