"LOVE'S LABOUR LOST."

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 26 August 1915, Page 2

"LOVE'S LABOUR LOST."

The editor of the Echo,-who has been an amateur flower and vegetable gardener for many years, and can pride himself on being able, through sheer hard work, to turn any old waste ground, such as Jit pipe-clay, solid putty-clay or"**** damnable old blackberry legacy, left by other useless neglects, into a veritable garden of shrubs, trees, flowers, a border of 200 plants, camelias, \.| fruit trees, gooseberry bushes, a bed of 200 strawberry plants, etc., etc., etc,, but "alas! poor Yorrick!" Where is that garden now? Ruined, damned for the season, with beds like a cribbage board, only that the holes are some 18 inches deep, and pretty soft too, as it y. rained all Thursday night last, when no -T* less than forty—we mean four—cows made a raid on the editor's preserves, and stampeded the whole night—even the poor innocent violets are buried for ever. The whole the result of our neighbour's cows breaking through their usual grazing paddock in the night, and ' strolling round town, discovering an open gate adjoining our section, breaking through a very insecure live fence; and * poking their noses, and their great big * clod-hopping hoofs, where they were not , * wanted. But is this all ? Is this the only satisfaction the fool has ? who spent \ months of labour and pounds of ready cash in trying to show Helensville what could be done in beautifying the place.