N.Z. CABBAGE TREE.
FLOURISHING IN SKYE. PLANTED 100 YEARS AGO. KEEPS DOMINION'S SEASONS. New Zealanders who visit Ord, in the Isle of Syke, Scotland, may be excused if they rub their eyes for a moment and imagine that they are in their native country, says a London correspondent. For there grows there a sturdy cabbage tree, which keeps tho New Zealand seasons and casts its leaves during the English summer.
Just how it came to flourish on Scottish soil was learned by a Mr. W. E.
Ball, of West Wickham, Kent, when ho was on holiday recently. Nearly 100 years ago Colonel lan MacDonald assisted his gardener's son to migrate to New Zealand, and the young man, in token of gratitude, sent back to tho colonel some cabbage tree seeds. They were planted immediately, and to-day they flourish as strongly as any of their type in the Dominion.
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Thames Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 20427, 1 October 1938, Page 2
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148N.Z. CABBAGE TREE. Thames Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 20427, 1 October 1938, Page 2
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