BACK AGAIN.
: -. :■ V*-.: >.- THE RETURN OF SPRING.
The first faint, but definite coats of <pring adorh the coiiutry. Railing through rural Manawatu and Wellington it is d'pleasure, to observe these signs of departing winter. "According, to the calendar which man prepared and. allocated' to New ■. Zealand," .Spring arrived 'a month ago,' but in. reality' > Spring obeys no ''■' human ' calendar- but the calendar of Nature. To-day, there" is a. green in the grass of tho .fields, vivid,-• and Bpringlike, and foreign to other, seasons ; willows. droop in flimsy curtains, tjuietf gentle, and retiring, but-infin-itely.'-surpassing'.'the finest art;\fruit trees and , garden plants display their colours and ■unfold their • charms. : , The train -run. is not'through laud of stumps and frowning lulls: the stumps and the hills are there, and yet are. not;-they are seen, but still unnoticed: B.esides the signs, of the season visible to even the hazy eyo of the eitj'. dweller, there is over all an ptmosphere; of Spring. . ' .
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 911, 2 September 1910, Page 5
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157BACK AGAIN. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 911, 2 September 1910, Page 5
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