XXVIII 



THE DAISY BUSHES 

 Olearias 



Qlearia Haastii . . The Daisy Tree 



chathamica 



stellulata 



macrodonta 



insignis 



nummularifolia 



Forsteri 



ON the New Zealand uplands, where the forest 

 ends and the meadow-land begins, there is not 

 infrequently an almost impenetrable natural 

 barrier dividing the two; particularly is this the case 

 where the rainfall is very heavy. This natural fence, 

 known to botanists as the sub-alpine scrub, is made up 

 of shrubs of many kinds, whose dense, rigid branches 

 intertwine and interlock to an amazing degree ; and it 

 is remarkable for being largely constituted of some of 

 the most interesting and representative members of the 

 New Zealand flora. Here are many veronicas and 

 senecios, and here, too, is the home of the many " Daisy 

 Bushes," whose gradual introduction to English gar- 

 dens during the past half century has been one of the 



outstanding features of garden progress. Nowhere but 



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