Shaggy Walls of Foliage.

Now the flowers had gone; everything was the most vivid wet green, in various shadings from the light green of the fern trees to the deep tintings of the high timber. The water was up over the tops of some of the lower trees and the sharp-pointed curving blades of the kiekie, like mountain flax, were swishing in the discoloured river. It is greener still, this Wanganui, when the floods have subsided and the water is clear; the tints of the wooded cliffs and slopes are so reflected in the river that the bottom of the canyons seems a smooth floor of foliage, with maybe a narrow strip of sky blue in the middle of it.