PALMAM QUI MERUIT.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 2314, 26 December 1889, Page 2

PALMAM QUI MERUIT.

TO THE EDITOR, i Sib,— l can remember De Moffit and my ancle talking over some of thelt aohooli day, exploits, the aogne of one of irbioh , was at the Water of Allan Sootland. My I nnole who was a good fisher aid caught a , lot o£ trout, and hid given some to a i companion who had oinght none, bat i who then went bragging and boasting to . every other boy of the tiro fine trout he I bad oanght, bnt on showing them to one , boy he was told *« Oh 1 its ea*y seen you , never oanght many trouta when yob mik' , Bae muckle b'.ow ahont thae twa three." , Now Mr Edltoe this will iU aß trate ths ; paragraph m your issue of the 7th lout. [ W. 0. Walker Esq., Valleta, has Bent us , a very handsome collection of seedline ; antlrrhinu ma— They have been grown from I aead saved at .Valletta last season by Mr , Newman." Yon will »dmlt that my , Illastration la apt when I tell yon that Mr , Newman did cot grow one of these ao- , called seedling antirrhinums nor was he near Valetia till a few weeks ago. Tfaey were raised from outtlnga and , planted whe*3 they now grow by Me Walker's former gardener (who haa not long left) the need originally being pro- , oared at Soaly Bros, Aihborton and thus Mr Newman got hla h.ndeome collection ofseedllDga, It la bat fair to let the oredlt He at the proper door, and In this oaie Mr Newman would do well to remember the oooplet where an anther wai guilty of laglarhm. ■ I- " I won't oall yon a tbtef i Bat Ma my belief You have what to another belongs.' I am, etc, Ootteabrook, Deo. 23rd, 1389. _ '