SUNDAY GARDENING.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 43382, 13 October 1908, Page 2

SUND A Y GARDENING.

[To the Editor.] Sir, - Your most intelligent !' correspondent, C. E. Lamb, unburdens himself in great style, on the above subject, in your issue of Saturday last, and I hope he feels better after his effort. I must have hit him in a sore place, and aroused all the latent fi-c of his Highland blood so long dormant ; but as our Charlie lives in a very’ secluded part of the town and is hedged in by an overgrown belt of sigus pines, through which the sun and “ God’s pure air ” find it difficult to .struggle, a view of his garden is almost impossible to the most observant passer by. Then Charlie, you are not a family-man-at least I have never seen you leading any' little lambs, or romping with them round the fold ; so as I endeavoured to point ont that it was the example set Captain Williams made his way across not think you were a little out by parents to their children, do you of your reckoning in thinking I was alluding to y'our Sunday “ pottering.” You should be more “ broad-minded my friend, give your subject more consideration, and on no account allow the flames of your Highland blood to cloud what little sense you have of right and wrong. Nobody' will object to your pottering about in your garden on a Sunday'—potter as much as you like but if you want to see what is objected to. take a walk on any Sunday morning further down the hill from your own little recreation ground, aud I think you will agree with me that it is time those in authority took a hand in this most objectionable habit. —I am, etc., Respectoh of tiie Sabbath.