Trees in the Forest
HAVE been listening with keen interest to Miss Millicent Jennings talking about trees. This 3YA session was originally planned for and used in the children’s hour and is delivered in that emphatic, precise way sometimes used to impress the meaning on a child’s mind. Now the subject is one which, considering Miss Jennings’s evident love for trees, might easily have been swept away on a flood of sentiment; but the talks are braced at every point with exact and interesting observations which make them as fresh as the winds from cedar forests. Of these, none did I enjoy more than that dealing with our own native trees, with which one grows more familiar as the years go by. An inadvertent touch of humour, too, came in when Miss Jennings, after dealing with legends, said that we have no fairies of the forest now, but the National Park Authorities instead. I had not known that the cabbage tree blossom has a (continued on next page)
rich scent. I must now wait till my own two have drawn themselves up to their full height.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 794, 8 October 1954, Page 10
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186Trees in the Forest New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 794, 8 October 1954, Page 10
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