GARDEN’S TREASURES
In and out of London the private gardener blessedly multiplies, writes Mr Ivor Brown in the “Observer.” We have done dreadful things to our country, slashing it with hireous arterial roads, insanely developed with ribbons of monotonous villadom. But the average Englishman is, despite all urban influence, something of a peasant. He prefers house to tenement, though it means a longer journey to work, and he will plant flowers. Compared with villadom in foreign countries ours is architecturally no worse and florally far better. Let those holidaying abroad match foreign suburbs and country cottages against our own. Ours are more pleasant to look at, at least in summer, because we will not economically concentrate on cabbages, but prefer the rock garden to blaze in purple and gold, allow the rose to ramble and choose a pea for a flower as well as for its pod.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 June 1938, Page 9
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147GARDEN’S TREASURES Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 June 1938, Page 9
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