Item 01: Fred Hamilton-Kenny letter diary, 29 August-19 October 1914 - Page 123
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[Page 123]
The thing about Suva is the greenness – the sward is very fine - The Botanic gardens are more like a big green park than any other gardens I've seen – a glorious carpet of green with hibiscus hedges – Hibisci do very well in this soft moist climate - The double scarlet one is a thing of beauty - The cricket ground also possesses a grand turf wicket & the outfield must be excellent - Really all this verdure grows on some 2 feet of humus on the tip of sandstone rock - Albizzias abound - They are a kind of Acacia – Rawdon knows them - We had a fine one next the police station in the hospital grounds at Gayndah - Victoria parade is lined with them & on then – covering their trunks & branches is a fern – a polypody - Ferns do well in this damp land - In the axils of leaves of a Palm in the Botanic gardens ferns had been planted from top to bottom & flourished exceedingly – fronds being 2 feet & more – Hare's foot fern grew splendidly there -