The first red deer came from Germany.

And side by side with these strangers and with the trees and plants which colonists call specifically "English"-- for the word "British" is almost unknown in the Colony--the native flora is beginning to be cultivated in gardens and grounds.

Neglected by the first generation, it is better appreciated by their children--themselves natives of the soil.
In the north and warmer island the traveller also meets sharp contrasts.

These, however, except in the provinces of Wellington and Napier, where the Tararua-Ruahine spine plays to some extent the part taken by the Alps in the South Island, are not so much between east and west as between the coasts and the central plateau.

For the most part, all the coasts, except the south-east, are, or have been, forest-clad.