BEAUTY AND THE BEASTS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2479, 4 June 1915, Page 8

BEAUTY AND THE BEASTS

OR ROSES AT THE "ZOO." Determined to help the Reserve Committee to beautify the "Zoo" almost in spito of itself, a deputation from the Wellington Rose and Carnation Club consisting of Messrs. Geo. Remington and E. l'careo (secretary) waited on tho Committeo on Wednesday at the Town Hall. It will bo remembered that about three months ago the club offered to undertake the work of making a beautiful rose pergola, arching in tho entrance to the "Zoo," with roses white and red, and further to institute a rosery in that swampy part of the grounds immediately to the south of tho small low bridge that spans a narnow neck of,tho "Zoo" lake, which is now sacred to a colony of Paradiso ducks. This was tho bread tho club asked for. The stone they received was I a proposal that tho club should plant with roses the crest of tho dry, barren hill immediately to the right on entering the "Zoo" gates, which has been impoverished, for ages by the all-devour-ing pines, which do not allow of tho growth of a blade of grass let alone a "Marcchal Niel" rose. To the committee on Wednesday Mr. Remington stated that the original suggestion was the best ono. He was altogether averse to having anything to do with the site near tho entrance, as from his point of view it was not suitable, and in planting roses t.hero anvone would be courting failure. Mr. Remington further suggested that an improvement could bo mado by plantinc rhododendrons and Japanese flowering cherries alternately on tho hank at the back of the fish ponds, and the banlc below the ponds could be considerably improved by planting suitable trees. 'It had also been praised to continue the road right up tha gully, and plant it with rhododendrons, which would do very well there. It would cost money, but it need not all bo , tlono at onco. Councillor Frost, chairman of tho . committee, said that the best thine; to > do, ho thought, would be for the n Zoo n [ Sub-committee to tio over the grounds • with Mr. "Remington.