Gould's Garden

NZ Truth, Issue 1194, 18 October 1928, Page 6

Gould's Garden

IF you ever hear of a book being: published under the title of "Vegetables ■ for Valetudinarians," you will be fairly safe m seeking the author at Ohakune, , though it is very doubtful whether. Albert William Gould's hoe and rake would allow him any of his leisure time to devote the pen to his favorite hobby — gardening. . •He would prefer to give a practical demonstration of how Mother Earth is the scientific sustainer of. all vitality —only from her fertile bosom can. the Miman frame assimilate the right and ■natural "vitamines. • .• . ;■ , . ;. Gould practises exactly what he preaches. And if his whole 7 meal and cabbage- water arguments-.' don't -just tickle your palate, his own bright eye. robust : cheek, and spritelyr though-seventy-years carriage, will convince you that he's oh 1 the right track. For over" 20 years practising as a lawyer- in 1 Ohakune, A.W.G. is a familiar figure m King Country courtrooms, whence he has gathered an entertaining, list of "sly- grog" anecdotes to add 'to those he 'still tells of his youthful days , as a sailor. There are those who cannot see crumb for. crumb with Gould m his hygienic dietary, but when he. can grow apples that look like mangolds | and uses a pumpkin-shell for a garden^ barrow, he certainly knows somothiaff ; about, horticulture.