My New Zealand Garden 1 3 



like all the other gems, cannot be made enough 

 of. A . floribunda, its little relative, can only rank 

 as a footstool to it. The Queensland Lily, Dory- 

 anthus excelsa so much ' excelsa ' that we have to 

 climb the step-ladder to look at it has great 

 blossoms of dark-red florets somewhat resembling 

 a Turk's-head broom, handle and all, in its whole 

 contour. It only flowers once every four years. 

 One can forgive it for that, for its stalk is 9 inches 

 round, and must take all its time to manufacture. 

 Mine has increased to several off-sets which look 

 as if they could be taken away for separate plants. 

 Cristia grandiflora, with its bunches of wonderfully- 

 shaped yellow flowers, grows quite 10 or 12 feet 

 high, and seeds freely. 



Brugmansias, both white and yellow, are cut 

 down by our frosts, but sprout up again in the 

 spring. The White Oleander and also Professor 

 Martin, a good red, do splendidly. Acacia cultri- 

 formis is a real gem, with its light pea-green, 

 curiously arranged foliage and flowers of deep 

 yellow soft little balls which nobody can help 

 admiring. The great single Rose, Rosa rugosa, 

 both white and pink, sends up suckers rather too 

 freely, and is better on the grass, where the 

 mowing-machine cuts them off. Laburnum Adami 

 may vary in colour, but mine is a dull flesh shade, 

 and not very attractive. Laburnums, with their 

 inseparable friends, the Lilacs, seem quite happy 



