Standing on top of a ridge on a chilly autumn day, looking down on the valley that is Eastwoodhill Arboretum, it's immediately apparent why this is one of New Zealand's national treasures. The extraordinary Poverty Bay tree collection is the creationof William Douglas Cook, who was once memorably described as "a plantsman with the soul of a poet and the vision of a philosopher". In autumn the 135-hectare park is a kaleidoscope of orange, purple, bronze and red sparkling in the morning light but just a century ago, when Douglas (as he was known) first travelled here by bullock wagon from Gisborne, the picture was vastly different.
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机译：在一个寒冷的秋日里，站在山脊上，俯视伊斯特伍德希尔植物园的山谷，这显然是为什么它是新西兰的国宝之一。杰出的贫困湾树木收藏是威廉·道格拉斯·库克（William Douglas Cook）的创作，曾被人难忘地描述为“一个拥有诗人灵魂和哲学家远见的植物人”。秋天，这个占地135公顷的公园是万花筒，橙色，紫色，青铜和红色在晨光中闪闪发光，但是就在一个世纪之前，道格拉斯（他以他的名字而闻名）第一次乘吉斯伯恩（Gisborne）的布洛克马车旅行到这里时，这张照片是巨大的不同。
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