Garden Glory

NZ Truth, Issue 1204, 27 December 1928, Page 15

Garden Glory

THERE are gardens and gardens; that where Mrs. David Nctthan, of "The Hill," Manurewa, staged her little party for the welcome of Mrs. H. O. Nolan and. Mrs. R. P. Jessel is several different sorts of Paradise mixed Into one colorful whole. . . First come the deep, glens of native bush, where great old puriri trees form homes for a myriad of birds. , • Mrs. Nathan is one of the few 1 : and true lovers of New Zealand ferns and her private fernery, flanked about by old carved wood made, to represent a Maori pa, is a characteristically ,New Zealand retreat.. ■ .■■'■■•.'■-.- ■■' .'■'. ..■'. ■ : Then there's the apple orchard, where blossoms niingle with the prim beauty of gepmetrically laid out beds; An old Italian garden was model for the borders of house leeks,, the little three-"foot-high espalier fruit trees and the ; bright patches of flowers. ;: ; If neither the \yild ' nor the severely controlled 'thing m gardens suits the onlooker,, there's a glorious. assortment' iri^thejrpckjery, where, crazy stone paths 'leiui'itd splashes ot blue and gold. ';