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Wairarapa Standard, Volume XX, Issue 2041, 11 March 1887, Page 2 (Supplement)

Of the goldcnrods 1 noted four species, including the white—which might appropriately be calkd silver-rod—and the bluest cm mod. The latter (solidago rasin') is to my eye the prettiest of ail that grow with us, though it, is nearly the least obtrusive. It is rarely if ever found outside of woods, and ought to bear some name (sylvan goldenrod, perhaps) indicative of the fact. As a rule autumn (lowers have little delicacy and fragranee. Thy arc children of the summer; and, loving the van, have had almost an excels of good fortune. Willi such pampering it is no wonder they grow rank and coarse. They would be more than human. I was going to say. if they did not. It is left for stern winter's progeny, the blossoms of springtime, who si niggled upward through the -now, and are blown upon by chilly winds—it is left for these gentle creatures, at once to hardy and so frail, to illustrate the sweet uses of adversity,