“World’s Best Kept Country” That Germany with its splendid roads and hospitable people is the best-kept country in the world is an opinion fonrted by Mr. H. A. Wilkes, of Invercargill, during his tour abroad. Mr. Wilkes left New Zealand last April and travelled to British Columbia via Suva and Honolulu. His chief impression during two days in British Columbia was of the magnificence of Butchart’s Gardens —a vast display of rare flowers and shrubs in the private grounds of a millionaire who had made his money from cement. The gardens, which include Japanese and Italian sections, are situated in an old cement quarry to which earth was carted for the sunken garden, which, with its five-mile avenue of Japanese cherry trees, is thrown open to the public free of charge. Money from the sale of any seeds is given to charity, and the gardens cost the owner £7OOO annually for upkeep. Thousands of tourists visit the locality.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19803, 3 December 1938, Page 9
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