New Zealand Plants and their Story
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New Zealand Plants
and their Story
Illustrated with 71 Photographs.
"The traveller, from whatever country, on arriving in New Zealand, finds himself surrounded by a vegetation that is almost wholly new to him, with little that is at first sight striking, except the Tree-fern and
Cordyline of the northern parts, and nothing familiar, except possibly the Mangrove; and as he extends his investigations into the Flora, with the exception of
Pomaderris and
Leptospermum, he finds few forms that remind him of other countries."—
J. D. Hooker, "Flora Novae-Zelandiae," Vol. i; Introductory Essay; Nov., 1853.
Wellington. John Mackay, Government Printer. 1910.