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pleasure of their blue blossoms flourishing splendidly on our first 

 tiny ill-tended plot. The plant has never strayed far ; it is a garden 

 rather than a field species, and has for more than thirty years remained 

 within a few dozen yards of the spot of its first appearance. 



Seed of modiola (Modiola multifida), which I had long noted in 

 Napier as a persistent garden weed, was brought up by Harry Young in 

 a bundle of cabbages ; at any rate, the plant appeared where they had 

 been grown. 



Pond weed (Potamogeton polygonifolius) was introduced from Pouriri 

 with water-lily roots which were sunk in the lake. They died, but for a 

 season or two the pondweed flourished with the same exuberance of 

 vitality as is shown by land plants enjoying their first taste of fresh soil. 



Daphne from a Napier nursery carried up white dead - nettle 

 (Lamium album). During one of the many alterations in shape, size, 

 and locality of the station gardens, it managed to extend its range 

 into the rose - beds. Later again, taking advantage of my absence 

 during the war, it has still further enlarged its domain. In spite, or 

 perhaps because of, thorough autumn forking, it survives through the 

 persistent rooting of each broken fragment. 



Lilium candidum, which used to grow with me over seven feet in 

 height until disease seized upon the plant, brought up black bindweed 

 (Polygonum convolvulus). 



With bamboos from Sir William Kussell's garden at Flaxmere 

 appeared fumitory (Fumaria officinalis). 



Pot-moss (Selaginella sp.), though but a very doubtful acclimati- 

 sation, appeared and spread for a single season where a pot of nerine 

 bulbs had been sunk into the garden soil. 



Twitch -grass (Agropyrum repens) was introduced in clumps of 

 kniphofia bought from a Hastings nurseryman. 



Portulaca (Portulaca oleraced) came up attached to a bulb of Lilium 

 giganteum given me by the late J. N. Williams from his Frimley garden. 

 Petty spurge (Euphorbia peplus) and field stachys (Stachys arvensis) 

 were almost certainly attached to earth adhering to roots. They 

 appeared, at any rate, immediately after the importation of a number of 

 herbaceous plants from England. 



Amaranth (Amarantus sp.) and lesser swine -cress (Senebiera 

 didyma), I believe, reached Tutira with a consignment of fruit-trees 

 for a new orchard. 



