320 ADVENTURE IN NEW ZEALAND. Chap. XII. 
merously attended on Te Aro flat ; and, to the credit 
of the community be it spoken, not a single case of 
drunkenness or disorderly conduct disfigured the plea- 
sant associations of the day. 
This had been reckoned rather an inclement season 
in New Zealand ; but barley was cut in the beginning 
of December on the banks of the Hutt, which weighed 
74 pounds to the bushel. At the show of the Horticul- 
tural Society on the 27th, prizes were given for potatoes, 
peas, beans, cauliflower, Spanish as well as English 
onions, carrots, rhubarb, artichokes ; wheat, barley, 
oats, rye -grass, turnips, and pot-herbs; strawberries^ 
cherries, goosel)erries, and black currants; dahlias, 
pansies, geraniums, roses, balsams, stocks, pinks, gla- 
diolas, various bulbous flowers from Sydney and the 
Cape of Good Hope ; and three prizes for cottagers' 
gardens on the Hutt and near the town. 
