SPRING at TRENTHAM

New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 70, 25 October 1940, Page 4

SPRING at TRENTHAM

tham. Although the first of the flowering bulbs are over, beds of wallflowers, forget-me-nots, and pansies paint the lawns and entrance to the camp. Many thousands of seedlings are being prepared for a summer and autumn display. Trentham is not the grim place a military camp suggests. The Camp Commandant, Lieut.-Colonel H. McHugh, M.C., is planning with determination to make it as attractive as possible. All his — scheming and planting of the autumn and winter months has, in this instance, borne flowers-the fruit will come later. The left side of the main street to the camp, from the entrance, has been planted with flowering cherries, crab apples, flowering plums, and _ other flowering shrubs. On the opposite side are beds of roses, which already show promise of a healthy crop of blooms. has really come to TrenBand Concerts The area facing the camp hospital has been laid down in lawn, and a band rotunda, built of timber from the Centennial Exhibition, is being erected in the middle of it. During the summer evenings the camp band will give concerts there. All through the camp, along the thoroughfares and in odd corners, shrubs have been planted and small beds of flowers arranged to break the monotony of the hutments. Nor has the more useful side of gardening been forgotten. Quantities of seeds have been donated to the camp and beds of radishes and lettuces, with tows of runner beans, will provide a goodly crop of fresh vegetables later on. It has not been possible so far to concentrate on one large vegetable garden, but any odd spaces about the camp are being put to good use.