23 MAY 1931, Page 14

Perhaps Australian flowers—which are very lovely—are less seen in Britain

than the flowers of any part of the world. That island-continent is peculiar to itself in many ways. The marsupials and many of the other animals, from tree bears to platypus or devil lizards, are wholly unlike the products of other lands. They have taken a line of development of their own. It is so, though in much less obvious shape, with the flowers. Those well-named kangaroo-footed blossoms, with the deep velvety tissue and rare colours, would be a rich addition to our gardens indeed ; but they prove a good deal harder to transplant than the animal from which they take their name.