HANDBOOK 



OF 



GARDENING F OR NEW ZEALAND 



WITH CHAPTERS ON 



By M. MURPHY, F.L.S. 



Secretary Canterbury Agricultural and Pastoral Association, and Editor 

 of " New Zealand Country Journal" &c., <rV. 



" MORAL OK THE GARDEN. Nothing teaches patience like a garden. All have to 

 wait for the fruit of the earth. You may go round and watch the opening bud from day 

 to day, but it takes its own time, and you cannot urge it on faster than it will. If forced, 

 it is only torn to pieces. All the best results of a garden, like those of life, are slowly but 

 regularly progressive. Each year does a work that nothing but a year can do. ' Learn 

 to labour and to wait ' is one of the best lessons of a garden. All that is good takes time, 

 and comes only by growth." 



SECOND EDITION. REVISED AND ENLARGED. 



CHRISTCHURCH, N.Z. : 



WHITCOMBE & TOMBS, LIMITED. 



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