2 AUGUST 1935, Page 16

• * * Empire Flowers Sonic allusion was made the

other day to the neglect of flowers overseas. I learn that the gap has been more or less made good in regard to the flowers of Western Australia (which are many, rare and lovely) and of Newfoundland. Mrs. Harold Ayre, of St. Johns, collected a cool thousand Newfoundland flowers, painted their portraits, life size, in water colours. These pictures, reduced in size and printed in black and white, have now been published (by Reeves & Co.). This is the first time that such a thing has been attempted, and the volume is very Welcome and deserves 'fall publicity