New Zealand Plants and their Story. A collection of 16 papers

A collection of 16 papers by different authors covering various aspects of using New Zealand native plants

Details more than 50 interesting public and private gardens all of which are open to visitors

the result of ten years work by Craig Burrows

The author has examined previously untranslated sources in Dutch

ISBN 9780207173516

New Zealand Plants and their Story. A collection of 16 papersL. Cockayne, Ph. D., F. L. S., F. R. S. Originally based on a series of articles written for the Lyttelton Times and first published in book form in 1910, this fourth edition was substantially revised and updated with much new material added, there are 136 illustrations. Cockaynes book deals with the plant life of New Zealand as a whole and describes it along ecological lines. It was a pioneering work that soon became a classic and was for many years