SUMMER BLOOMS

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 857, 28 December 1929, Page 1

SUMMER BLOOMS

Misty Days Add Colour to Flowers ALBERT PARK BRILLIANCE The warm sprinkle of summer rain seems to have added brilliance to the flower beds in Albert Park. Auckland has nothing more lovely to offer the visitor than a stroll along its scented and coloured paths. Tall spikes of gladioli stand like florid rows of soldiers, their uniforms of red and gold, pink and orange and purple making a brave show against the emerald green lawns. Crimson geraniums line the borders along Princes Street and make a fit setting for pillars of roses and clumps of lilies whose scent in the warm evening air fills the whole park with a delicious incense. Deep blue forget-me-nots, the large variety, take the place of the midsummer sky. Nearby spikes of delphiniam try conclusions in a similar colour scheme. Roses are everywhere and carnations. half hidden among the patches of other blooms along the border, are betrayed by their delicate perfume. Pansies and violas hide their velvet faces under the weight of raindrops, but they are none the less lovely for that. Then there are the myriad clumps of annuals, countless in their variety of colour. At the foot of Bowen Avenue there is a tiny rock-garden which will repay close inspection. Here among the mauve catmint and tiny campanulas are delicate little plants smothered with a mist of flowers. Almost unnoticed grows a native Australian violet—white and purple, a sky-blue convolvulus clambers over the grey rock arid carpets it with colour, diminutive ice-plants lend their scarlet and bold yellow to the mass of colour which meets the eye from the drab pavement of Victoria Street. And high overhead is the blood-red pohutukawa, flaunting its tightlypacked branches with as much bloom as they will hold. In the Domain there is the same story of flaming summer colour, not so brilliant perhaps as Albert Park, but more lovely because of its spacious setting of trees and distance. In the winter gardens and the paved court between them there are flowers of every hue. Far from the bustle of city streets these are pleasand places to wander for awhile. Visitors to Auckland have found them

fluiet retreats and gentle interludes *y in the excitement of holiday-making.

NO SUPERANNUATION REFUND OF PAYMENTS Press Association WELLINGTON, Today. In regard to the Auckland dismissals, the secretary of the Post and Telegraph Department stated today that each dismissed officer loses his right to superannuation, but is entitled to a refund of his payments into the fund.