CORNWALL PARK

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 43, 13 November 1937, Page 4

CORNWALL PARK

Attractive Hastings Reserve is Garden of Flowers LOVELY SURROUNDINGS

With lawn and gardens basking in b right sulhaiet sunshine, Cornwall Park, Hastings, h&s presfented a pCrfect picture to visitors dufing the past week. In the bfief time when the fullest range ctf flowers is to be seen, ahd before thcvheat of tho fflih has thwarted the efforts of the gAfdeners t6 keep the lawns perfectly grfeen, the reserve is a gem of' bCAuty, attractihg most favourAble cotiifiient from. all wliO have seen it. _ 1 Perhaps the best conception of the quiet beauty of the surroundings may be gained in the middle morning, when there Are few people about, and the low murmur df summer noisesj the oecasional cries of the birds in the aviary, and the distant sound of ruhning^watef blend. into a musical backgrouhd that is worthy Of the setting.Then a leisurely stroll aloSig the trxta paths, flanked by well-kept gardens ablaze with 'colour, means time well spent. Each tufh of the .path unfolds new vistas of colour And the Serenity of the resefve is completely iindisturbed, . „ The wisdom of thoSe who planned the park in seeing that the flower bedS and lawns were flanked by ponds and running water is at once apparent. Regal swans and fussy ducks, moving slowly on water that glcms in thd sunshine, fofni an importAnt part of the picture, the almost blank surface of the water emphasising to the utmost the profusion of gay blooms that abound in every plot, and flank the borders in a riot of colour/ filling the remainder Gf the atea with bldbms that smile coatentedly at the beanty of their surroundings And the WAf-Uith 6f the sun. ' Wide expanses of lawn, level ahd greeh, Tepresent in their immaculate appearanee a eonsiderabie amount of care by the gardeiiers, At this tiffli of the year the hoses are playing nearly all the time to eneiUre that the turf will not become pftrched and'^brown^ for the lawns piay a great part in the beauty of the park.