ALPINE PLANTS FROM THE ANDES.
LONDON GIRL’S TRAVELS. Miss Doris Stafford, of Enfield, Middlesex, who has had a six months’ tour through the Peruvian Andes, reached Liverpool in November in the Reina del Pacifico. Her luggage included seven packing-cases filled with Alpine plants which she had gathered in the course of her travels. These included four gentians previously unknown in England. These plants are being sent to Kew. Edinburgh, and Copenhagen, where they will ho cultivated, and future gentians, which have a blue colour, may enrich our gardens (says a London journal). Miss Stafford said that she had travelled 500 miles through the Andes, and for the greater part of the journey was carried on the back of a mule; but she also travelled by train and aeroplane. Miss Stafford n.dded that she would soon return and start an experimental farm to keep up the supply of Alpine plants.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 23, 23 December 1932, Page 7
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149ALPINE PLANTS FROM THE ANDES. Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 23, 23 December 1932, Page 7
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