Whence Our Plants Came.
It is interesting to walk through the gardens and to remember whence came many of the plants. The tulip tree came originally from New England. The weeping willow was brought from the Euphrates about 1745 by Mr Vernon, a merchant at Aleppo. He set it up at Twickenham. As for the flowers, love-in-a-mist hailed originally from Greece and from the Levant, laburnum from the Alps, the lilac from Persia, and the tulip from Constantinople. The Guernsey lily was washed ashore i » the Channel Islands in 1659, and the Scarborough lily reached the English shores in the same way in 1774 About 1790 a nurseryman of Hammersmith, looking up at a certain window, saw a fuchsia a sailor had brought home from South America as a present to Jiis wife. He offered £8 8s for it, but got it only after promising the owner two of the young plants he hoped to j raise.—“ My Magazine.”
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18900, 26 October 1929, Page 24 (Supplement)
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