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Star (Christchurch), Issue 16905, 2 December 1922, Page 12

The death is reported from Sydney of Mr Alexander Sass, the well-known artist. The Tramwaj* Band will play a select e 4 programme of music in ~ Victorii Square rotunda on Sunday evening. It was reported at yesterday’s meeting of the Domains Board that the new tea kiosk in the Botanic Gardens would be completed before the end of the year Black is fortunately the rarest colour in flowers, but floriculturists are always seeking to attain it, as a rule unsuccessfully. There is a black tulip in fiction, but not in fact, and as was shown at the last British National Dahlia Society’s exhibition, there is a dahlia which is very nearly black. Some years ago a French poppy was introduced whicli_ was to darkly purple that to call it black was a pardonable exaggeration. Of familiar flowers, however, the pansy is the only one with which experimentalists 1 have had complete success.